Continuing with the series of old MS Windows stories I found a shell script that I used as a base for several scripts mainly to automatize CI/CD tasks
This script was made from reviewing other coworkers scripts and example scripts from the Internet
echo off
SETLOCAL
@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@REM
@REM author: [email]
@REM
@REM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo =========================================================
echo [script_name]]
echo =========================================================
echo.
@REM set local variables
set start_time=%time%
@REM ------------------------------------------------
@REM Shorten the command prompt for making the output
@REM easier to read.
@REM ------------------------------------------------
set savedPrompt=%prompt%
set prompt=$$$g$s
rem do stuff
pushd %CD%
@if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 GOTO Error
echo process successfully finished.
GOTO End
:Error
echo an error has ocurred.
:End
echo start time: %start_time%
echo end time: %time%
pause
:finish
popd
set prompt=%savedPrompt%
ENDLOCAL
echo on
As an example here is a poor man’s way to generate a daily metric report from a Silverlight report application (that old)
The application didn’t support any report functionality, I didn’t have access to it is database then as a quick solution I created this script and with some irfan_view help and a Windows scheduled task I was able to automatically open the application and take a daily screenshot of the metrics results
echo off
echo metrics screenshot script
echo -------------------------
set start_time=%time%
set current_dir=%cd%
set ie_path=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
set metrics_site=https://mamcer.github.io/aboutme/
set irfanview_path=C:\root\bin\irfan-view\App\IrfanView\i_view32.exe
set screenshot_path=C:\Users\mario\Desktop\screenshoots
set wait_seconds=5
echo open metrics site
"%ie_path%" %metrics_site%
echo wait some seconds for metrics site to load
ping -n %wait_seconds% 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1
echo take a screenshot
"%irfanview_path%" /capture=2 /convert="%screenshot_path%\$U(%%Y.%%m.%%d).metrics.png"
@if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 pause
cd %current_dir%
echo -----------------------------
echo process successfully finished.
echo start time: %start_time%
echo end time: %Time%
pause
echo on
