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Dealing with date and time is more or less a common task when batch scripting. Awk provides simple date and time function for basic time/date manipulation needs. 1) systime() 2) strftime() 3) mktime() 1) systime(). This is the the number of seconds since the system epoch. systime is commonly used to...

Do you know the better solutions for StartsWith/EndsWith? Do you know the reliable solution for Contains? what you are doing is re-inventing the wheel. like foxi said, the native findstr can do the job of "contains" and starts with, ends with. you can also use tools like grep.exe or awk.e...

shashank.kaneria wrote:I am working on a batch script which can kill process who use more than 90% of the CPU.

so you have worked on a batch. Where is it?

In awk, you can get user input using the getline function eg BEGIN{ print "Enter something" getline entered print "You entered " entered } result C:\>awk -f test.awk Enter something test You entered test here, you the variable "entered" will contain the value of what th...

For this next part of the primer I am going to introduce user defined functions in awk. Awk in fact is a little "programming language" as you can already see what features it has so far. As such, you can create user defined functions inside an awk script. The purpose of functions is to pro...

Maybe put it this way to bars. Since he wants to save the pages as he visits the site then wget had the recursive option to do that. By downloading through wget its the same as he already visited the sites. Although its not clear what he wants to do with the saved pages.

If all you want is just download web page then use wget

If you want to find all records with 2nd column starting with "A", then That should read containing an "A" nice spot. amended. Actually its the ^ that I left out. Next we find how many days are there in the file that has closing price greater than average. This is the code This ...

im more interested in the likeness of wget which is portable, standalone and easy. grep requires other dll. awk is more like php. its better for me to finish studying .bat usefulness to my only window 7-netbook. if i learned enough .bat usage then i will use unix apps so that i can learn their diff...

Squashman wrote:Not sure if all the versions of grep for windows require the extra dll files.

gnu win32 grep (practically most of them ) has installers so just one click install does the job.

Let's say you want to get some information from systeminfo command. eg you want to get the data from these items: OS Name System type System Up Time Original Install Date" Total Physical Memory Available Physical Memory BIOS Version OS Version Here is the code, save as parse_systeminfo.awk BEGI...

Awk commands are not just for one liners as we have seen so far. You can put awk commands in a script (aka, text file) and have awk run them for you. Its the same as writing a vbscript and having cscript engine runs the command for you. The syntax for running awk scripting is simply (-f option) c:\>...

Awk has in built pattern matching and functions for string substitutions. Here I show some basic examples of simple matching and substitution. Regular expressions is a vast topic so if for in depth regex , please consult a regex book. My favorite is Mastering Regular Expression from Oreilly. Pattern...

This code has unbalanced parentheses - and it lacks a command line version. Can that also be implemented? for (x = 0; x <= 10; x++) { if (x == 2) { continue # this continue skips the print statement below } print "something" fixed the parenthesis. Actually you can write it all on the comm...

awk "BEGIN{a[1]=\"one\" ; a[\"two\"]=2; for(item in a) {print item\" \"a[item] } }" How is the order defined. This prints two 2 before 1 one arrays in awk has no indexing as in normal arrays we see in C. So its arbitrary. I will add this point in. I added a p...