Appreciate the replies, as always. I give this list huge kudos. I'm primarily a lurker but I pick up more useful information here than anywhere else.
I didn't want to bore you with too much detail about this job, but if you've ever heard of Sterling Commerce's product called NDM Connect Direct - that's where I'm ending up with this. We have one single client out of hundreds, one client who insists on using this NDM application to send/receive files. I absolutely loathe this product. But anyway, internal users drop a file(s) in a specific internal folder. File(s) gets replicated to a box in a DMZ & trigger file created. Batch process running on NDM box watches for trigger file, sees it, initiates NDM transfer job. That's all fine & good. Recently, problem comes to me - most of the files we send are ascii, and they're transferring perfectly. However, some spreadsheets we're sending are getting hanked up, can we please send those binary. Sigh... OK, sure. So what I'm attempting to do is on the job that replicates the files out to the DMZ box, do something like copy *.xls > destination folder 2, copy *.* > destination folder 1. (I'm sure I'll end up having to sort more file types but that would be simple to add once this binary/ascii thing is up & working). But then on the NDM box, have it recognize whenever one of those folders has a new file(s) in it and then run the appropriate ascii or binary transmit job. Did I mention I absolutely loathe this NDM application? ----- Original Message ----- From: Kennedy, Jim To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:58 PM Subject: RE: Batch file task What actions do you need to do? Robocopy will watch folders and run forever.if you just need to do a copy of the contents or changes to those folders it will work for you. From: m b [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Batch file task I need to create a section of a batch file that will determine whether a folder has had files added to it or not, and then perform one of two actions. I was thinking of doing a dir > filename, to get something like dirlist.txt & oldlist.txt and doing a file compare on the two text files, but the "fc" command doesn't seem to give me any output I can use within the batch file. I was hoping it would give me something in "errorlevel", but it doesn't. In the end, I'll have a batch file that runs constantly, and each loop it will look at a couple of folders. If there's something in folder 1, it will perform action 1, and if there's something in folder 2, it will perform action 2. Thanks in advance Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
