I'm making a simple batch file (bat) how do I make it stay open?

[superHARD]

so I have a bat file that has "ipconfig /all" in it, but when I run it, it just closes...how do I make it stay open? Is there a command for this or something? It needs to be fixed in the bat file, not in the OS, I will be sending it to people to tell me their MAC addresses.

 

[Snapster]

@echo off

ipconfig / all

pause

 

[superHARD]

TY dude you rock!

now is there a way to make it auto copy to clipboard their mac address?

 

[Snapster]

Not sure you can do that. You could actually just output the result to a text file and get them to send that to you.

@echo off

ipconfig /all > c:\ipresult.txt

pause

 

[superHARD]

any way to auto put that in a email?

or any to copy the txt file so all they have to do is paste it in a email back to me?

 

[Snapster]

The problem is that I don't think batch files do not have access to the clipboard. You can do a mailto launch within a batch file, but you can't set the body to anything other than a string, but then you'd need to set that string to the result of the command which is a tad long

I think it's just asking a little bit too much automation from a simple script, you need a more complex scripting language or your own program to do what you want.

Then again, batch guru's could well prove me wrong.

 

[superHARD]

ok cool ty...but how do I get the mailto launch to work?

mailto launch: ?

 

[Snapster]

Pretty much like html:


START mailto:help@yourdomain.com?subject=Your%%20subject%%

It'll spawn a new mail from the default mail client

 

[Ken g6]

Hey, that start is pretty cool.

If all you're after is the MAC addresses, and not what interfaces they go to, the data could be made shorter:

ipconfig /all | find "Physical Address" > c:\ipresult.txt

But I'm not sure how to get that into the Subject line.

 

[superHARD]

Cool, the find feature workes great for me...TY!

Now, how do I automate a "run as" command in there?
I'm wanting to run it as a certian username in this case the username is "install"

 

[yinan]

You can gather this information remotely using vbscript and wmi

 

[superHARD]

Originally posted by: yinan
You can gather this information remotely using vbscript and wmi

I don't know how to use either of them...and I don't really know how to use these bat files either...

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: superHARD
Cool, the find feature workes great for me...TY!

Now, how do I automate a "run as" command in there?
I'm wanting to run it as a certian username in this case the username is "install"

runas /username:yourdomain\install yourcommand

There are other options to consider, but that should be enough to get you started.

 

[nweaver]

do you know their IP already?

If so, use psexec command, psexec ipconfig /all \\computernameorip /user:install

the syntax may be off (it's been a while since I had to bust out the pstools) but it should be close.

 

[exdeath]

You can do anything in a batch file that you can do in Windows API by calling rundll32.

For example try this from the command line:

rundll32 user32.dll LockWorkStation