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MathCubes

6:00 PM

@BenN I never used PowerShell before

Ben N

Eventually you might want to, it's pretty neat

But back to batch, what exactly should the non-working code be doing?

DavidPostill

@MathCubes So add the new stuff line by line and figure out when it stops working. And remove the echo off so you can see what the batch file is actually doings. Test after each step.

MathCubes

@DavidPostill Done did

Ben N

Where exactly does the undesired behavior come in?

MathCubes

@BenN It does the "echo !Timer_Secondary_Repeat_Counter_Value! repeats remain" which is at the end of the lane basically first. So it displays 5 than 4. So it appers like "54"

Dog

6:02 PM

DavidPostill is made from frozen unicorn tears?

2

Interesting. This I did not know.

Explains a lot.

Ben N

Are you missing a closing parenthesis on your for loop?

MathCubes

I have given you the code. You can easily run it if you are on Dos or Windows.

Again if I used & with it than it wouldn't run for some reason

Ben N

So the non-& version works as intended?

And does what you're trying to accomplish?

I'm still a little fuzzy on what the desired output is, could you please show what's supposed to happen?

MathCubes

I am trying to fit it on one line so that I can feed it though another cmd without needing another batch file

So how it should works is

Timer_Secondary_Repeat_Counter_Value which is the variable for how many times the loop has run -1 for each time. Having that echo at the end of the "line" but it echo when the loop first runs.

Dog

Have you tried Powershell?

2

MathCubes

6:08 PM

No. I have only play around with the IDE before

With Power shell can I make a user input?

Ben N

With PowerShell you can do anything

5

MathCubes

Really? Even make a simple game with the arrow keys? I assume not but?

Ben N

It would be really difficult, but technically doable

MathCubes

Really

Ben N

Also, when I run your batch file with multiple lines, it doesn't appear to do anything

MathCubes

6:11 PM

This one?
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value=5
set Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value=2
set User_Primary_Command="echo Hello world!&echo(&pause"

::repeat =1 and timer >0
if "%Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value%" equ "1" if "%Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value%" gtr "0" start "" cmd /c "@echo off&timeout /t %Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value%&start "" cmd /c %User_Primary_Command%
::repeat =1 and timer =0
if "%Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value%" equ "1" if "%Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value%" equ "0" start "" cmd /c %User_Primary_Command%

Ben N

That one does things, but not the previous one

MathCubes

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value=5
set Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value=3
set User_Primary_Command="echo Hello world!&echo(&pause"
set Timer_Secondary_Repeat_Counter_Value=%Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value%
for /l %%x in (1, 1, %Timer_Primary_Repeat_Counter_Value%) do (
echo !Timer_Secondary_Repeat_Counter_Value! repeats remain
set /a Timer_Secondary_Repeat_Counter_Value-=1
timeout /t %Timer_Primary_Second_Counter_Value%
cls
start "" cmd /c !User_Primary_Command!

Oh Maybe I miss type it

Or left some of it out when I was copying it

Ben N

Ah, that works

@DavidPostill Are all batch variables on a line expanded immediately before that line's execution even if the line contains multiple commands?

I suspect that's the problem with the all-on-one-line approach

MathCubes

Really

So it can't work?

DavidPostill

@BenN I'm not sure

Ben N

6:17 PM

If my guess is correct, making it work would be very messy

But guess what can easily handle a bunch of things on one line without expanding early

Let me see if I can whip up a PS thing for this

MathCubes

Okay thanks

Really appreciate the help been working on this for over 6 hours now.

Ben N

This multiline PS script has the right effect:

$repeats = 5
$delay = 3
$command = 'echo Hello world! & echo. & pause'
$repeats..1 | % {
	"$_ repeats remaining"
	Start-Sleep -Seconds $delay
	Start-Process cmd "/c $command"
}

And here it is all on one line:

$repeats = 5; $delay = 3; $command = 'echo Hello world! & echo. & pause'; $repeats..1 | % { "$_ repeats remaining"; Start-Sleep -Seconds $delay; Start-Process cmd "/c $command" }

MathCubes

Thnaks

Now Would it be possible to see how many seconds are remaning?

Ben N

That's doable

Blog bot

6:32 PM

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Ben N

@MathCubes

$repeats = 5; $delay = 3; $command = 'echo Hello world! & echo. & pause'; cls; $repeats..1 | % { $repLeft = $_; $delay..1 | % {"$repLeft repeats remaining"; "$_ seconds before continuing"; sleep 1; cls}; Start-Process cmd "/c $command" }

MathCubes

Nice. I should really learn this.

Ben N

:D

MathCubes

Didn't knew how powerful it was. I just thought it was just an extension on Batch that basically allow basic things to be done like edit the registry

Ben N

Here are some examples of interesting things I've done with PowerShell

(shameless plug for my PS answers; please do not upvote them)

MathCubes

6:38 PM

Nice.

Now could you with this assign a key to exit the loop?

Ben N

Ctrl+C will exit the entire script

MathCubes

Yea but I want to create a section of stuff to choose from.

Ben N

When should that appear?

MathCubes

At the begainning

Ben N

The Read-Host cmdlet takes user input

Mokubai

6:57 PM

Wow. The things you realise when a question piques your interest.

MathCubes

How do I make a file that is digitally signed

Ben N

@MathCubes You need a signing certificate, which is kinda expensive. Is PowerShell giving you trouble about script execution rules?

MathCubes

yes

Ben N

If so, do Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser and it will let you run scripts

MathCubes

Thanks

HackToHell

7:17 PM

reddit.com/r/india/comments/5oafiz/…

yay India is getting it's own NSA <3

Mokubai

7:35 PM

Oh that is just beautiful...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38635518

Sorry, spoiler... politics.

djsmiley2k

8:27 PM

@Burgi i've not forgotten :P

Burgi

ironically i have

any context?

djsmiley2k

:D

Sherlock

I only remembered it becuase someone else mentioned it on facebook

Burgi

oh!

ok good news

my sleep timer app is now working (needed .net 3.5)

@Mokubai i heard that donald trump's hair was actually born as a small dog in moldovia and as a result he can't be the US president

djsmiley2k

8:46 PM

@Burgi \o/

Burgi

i know they are bad for me but i miss the win 7 gadgets

they are like rainbow drops

Burgi

8:58 PM

tereško

9:42 PM

hmm .. so, this is a thing: Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake systems are vulnerable to a USB debugging exploit

Mokubai

10:12 PM

@tereško worrying

tereško

since my box runs on 8270, I see it more as "interesting"

Mokubai

@tereško you're running a HP scanner?

odd

tereško

:D

sorry

8370

I'm at the end of my second beer and starting to get bored

Burgi

more beer?

Bob

@tereško U-series only, it says. So laptops mostly.

Then again...

> An attacker could change the BIOS configuration (for example, by using a Flash memory programmer) when they have physical access to the equipment during manufacturing, storage or usage.

tereško

10:24 PM

@Bob ... which also happen to be the devices, that get penetrated by various USB devices the most

Bob

As Raymond Chen would say, the attacker is already on the other side of the airtight hatchway...

If your attacker is to the point of modifying the firmware, I'd say you're probably already screwed.

Burgi

10:39 PM

@tereško i followed your lead and got myself a beer

tereško

\o/

bwDraco

@tereško I wouldn't worry about it. If an attacker has physical access to the machine, you're screwed anyway.

tereško

if those were desktop CPUs, then I would agree

but it's laptop stuff

Bob

10:58 PM

@tereško was just adding info to a somewhat misleading/clickbaity title

bwDraco

11:19 PM

Sep 22 '16 at 14:04, by bwDraco

It's clickbait. Remember that they have a business to run; they need to be able to put food on the table. "'WT1190F' Safely Reenters Earth's Atmosphere" isn't going to attract many readers; "Mysterious Space Debris Hit Earth" will.

Burgi

wtf?

bwDraco

@Burgi See context.

Burgi

can you give me the headlines?

bwDraco

Sep 22 '16 at 13:28, by Rahul2001