was unexpected at this time

Discussion forum for all Windows batch related topics.

Moderator: DosItHelp

Post Reply
Message
Author
testingbatch
Posts: 7
Joined: 19 Feb 2019 09:13

was unexpected at this time

#1 Post by testingbatch » 19 Feb 2019 09:25

Code: Select all

call "...\server.bat"  start ifa
call "...\jar.exe" -cvfM "CDO.zip" "%1"
set jobid = "...\curl.exe" -X POST -i -T "CDO.zip" "http://localhost:9080/rest/ifa/v1/triaged-assessments"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('%jobid% ^|findstr ".*-.*-.*-.*"') do set "output=%%a"
echo %output%
call "...\curl.exe" -X GET --header "Accept: application/octet-stream" --output "CDOout.zip"  "http://locahost:9080/rest/ifa/v1/triaged-assessments/%jobid%"
The output:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:12:01 GMT
X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.1
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:12:01 GMT
Content-Length: 36

fdfba1cf-9b97-457e-b1d5-076dc8393ecf| was unexpected at this time.

Hello guys, how are you doing? I'm new at batch and i'm trying to get the random string from the header (with the for condition) but always returns the same type of error: | was unexpected at this time..

What I have done was send the output to a new .txt file, save it into a variable then delete the file, but I want to simplify this mechanism so i'm trying to save that string on a variable because i need that to execute the next call.

Thanks in advance.

Squashman
Expert
Posts: 4465
Joined: 23 Dec 2011 13:59

Re: was unexpected at this time

#2 Post by Squashman » 19 Feb 2019 11:37

Remove the spaces in the SET command for the JOBID variable. If you have a space on the left of the equals symbol it becomes part of the variable name. If you have a space on the right of the equals symbol it becomes part of the value.

testingbatch
Posts: 7
Joined: 19 Feb 2019 09:13

Re: was unexpected at this time

#3 Post by testingbatch » 20 Feb 2019 03:20

Squashman wrote:
19 Feb 2019 11:37
Remove the spaces in the SET command for the JOBID variable. If you have a space on the left of the equals symbol it becomes part of the variable name. If you have a space on the right of the equals symbol it becomes part of the value.
Hello Squashman, and thanks for the feedback. I did what you say to do and now the program is returning a error type of the system cannot find the path specified (?).

Output:

Code: Select all

D:\>call "...\server.bat"  start ifa
Starting server ifa.
Server ifa started.
adding: Appscan/Scan/20190212_123048.ozasmt(in = 16177326) (out= 998720)(deflated 93%)
The system cannot find the path specified.
ECHO is off.
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
Stopping server ifa.

What I noticed is that happens only in the for condition.


Code: Select all

call "...\server.bat"  start ifa
call "...\jar.exe" -cvfM "CDO.zip" "%1"
set jobid="...\curl.exe" -X POST -i -T "CDO.zip" "http://localhost:9080/rest/ifa/v1/triaged-assessments"
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('%jobid% ^|findstr ".*-.*-.*-.*"') do set "output=%%a"
echo %output%
call "....\curl.exe" -X GET --header "Accept: application/octet-stream" --output "CDOout.zip"  "http://localhost:9080/rest/ifa/v1/triaged-assessments/%jobid%"
call "...\jar.exe" -xvf "CDOout.zip"
call "...\server.bat"  stop ifa

pause
My code is like this right now. I didn't mention this before but i need the random string output of the header to copy into a variable and use it in the next call.

Again, thanks for the support/feedback.

penpen
Expert
Posts: 1991
Joined: 23 Jun 2013 06:15
Location: Germany

Re: was unexpected at this time

#4 Post by penpen » 24 Feb 2019 03:03

On some first tests it seems (at last on my win 10) the "for/f"-command doesn't accept the ".\" and "..\" parts for the command you want it to execute, as long as you don't use a volume descriptor.
Just remove all those "...\","....\", "............................\" parts (that are reduced to ".\").
Btw why do you use those in your commands (i don't see any reason in doing so)?

penpen

Post Reply