Batch Script

Fuctifino

SCRIPTING HELP

Sup lads; perhaps one of you know scripting?

REM ***This batch file will automatically run SCANPST on every PST file in the
REM ***directory specified by PST_FILE_MASK.

set SCANPST_PATH="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\SCANPST.EXE"
set PST_FILE_MASK="C:\Users\josh\Documents\Mail\*.pst"
set scandirs="

REM *** CD into in the directory that contains the launched batch file...
cd %~dp0

del cscanpst.log

for %%i in (%PST_FILE_MASK%) do (

REM Add an N to the end of the following line of you don't want backup files

cscanpst.exe %SCANPST_PATH% "%%i"
if errorlevel 3 goto done
)
:done

@echo Log:
@type cscanpst.log

@pause

What this does, is take the PST_FILE_MASK as the location, and run's scanPST against all PST's in that directory.

How do i modify it to take all sub directories, within a specific directory and scan for *.pst? so instead of \Users\josh\Documents\Mail\*.pst it will take C:\*\*.pst?
(that doesn't work btw i tried )

carveone

Yes, don't do it quite that way. You need to seperate the path from the wildcard and then use "for /r":

set SCANPST_PATH="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\SCANPST.EXE"
set PST_FILE_MASK="*.pst"
set PST_FILE_DIR="C:\Users\josh\Documents\Mail"

cd %~dp0

del cscanpst.log

for /R %PST_FILE_DIR% %%i in (%PST_FILE_MASK%) do (

cscanpst.exe %SCANPST_PATH% "%%i"
if errorlevel 3 goto done
)
:done

@echo Log:
@type cscanpst.log

@pause 

Like that. By the way there's a very subtle bug:
cd %~dp0

will not change drive if that drive isn't the current drive if you know what I mean. In other words if you are in "d:\home", and do "cd c:\users\foo" then you are still in !!

Do it like this:

cd %~d0
cd %~p0

Hope this helps.

carveone

By the way, help is available for each command by going "help command". So "help for" will give you the parameters for for. The most useful of all is "help set".

Also this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/batch.mspx?mfr=true