Hi i am new to this, i want to search a string in a log file through batch file and if it found that string, it should print 'success' otherwise 'failure' message into a txt file. Thanks in advance

@echo off find "string" < my.log > nul goto :%errorlevel% :1 echo failure & goto :eof :0 echo success ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

thanks for the answer but it is not working , it giving success even though it is a failure. i have written the below script but still it is not working @echo off find "Unix" <"C:\Cognos_Data\Logs\DynamicPackaging_PCConn.log"> nul goto :%errorlevel% :1 echo failure >"C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" :0 echo success >"C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" ,Also i want how many times that word "unix" present in that log file , i.e.if that word "UNIX" in that log file present 5 times then success otherwise failure. Thanks in advance

It goes to :0 because you left out: goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thanks for the reply, but i tried the below code ,its still not working, @echo off find "Unix" <"C:\Cognos_Data\Logs\DynamicPackaging_PCConn.log"> nul goto :%errorlevel% :1 echo failure & goto :eof >"C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" :0 echo success >"C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" Please can you help me in this logic. i need the batch file for this code if that word "UNIX" in that log file present 5 times then success otherwise failure. Thank you very much

Hope this does the trick: ---------------------------------------------- @echo off & cls type nul>tempsearch.txt ::// WORD TO SEARCH FOR. :search find /i "unix" < "C:\Cognos_Data\Logs\DynamicPackaging_PCConn.log" >> tempsearch.txt ::// CHECK IF WORD APPEARS 5+ TIMES. set counter=0 for /f %%A in (tempsearch.txt) do ( set line=%%A set /a counter +=1 ) if %counter% GEQ 5 goto :GREATER_OR_EQUAL goto :LESS :GREATER_OR_EQUAL echo Your search word appears more than 5 times in your document. echo success >> "C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" echo UNIX was present %counter% times >> "C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" pause>nul goto :EOF :LESS echo Your search word appears less than 5 times in your document. echo success >> "C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" echo UNIX was present %counter% times >> "C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Incremental_batch_files\Test.txt" pause>nul

Thanks a lot its workings, But still I have one more issue, i have function PCCONN in Cognos application , That Command should be execute first and then the remaining logic should run But once that Function execution is done, bat file is get finish without executing the remaining code below it. Is there any function i can give like -f after PCCON command so that it will execute the remaing code too after this command. e.g. REM --------- Step 1: Use pcconnect to Redirect the datasource --------- cd C:\Program Files\cognos\c83\webapps\utilities\PCConn pcconn -f C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\DynamicPackaging\RedirectDS.txt > "C:\Cognos_Data\Logs\DynamicPackaging_PCConn.log" @echo off type nul> tempsearch.txt ::// WORD TO SEARCH FOR. :search find /i "UNIX" < "C:\Cognos_Data\Logs\DynamicPackaging_PCConn.log" >> tempsearch.txt ::// CHECK IF WORD APPEARS 5+ TIMES. set counter=0 for /f %%A in (tempsearch.txt) do ( set line=%%A set /a counter +=1 ) if %counter% GEQ 5 goto :GREATER_OR_EQUAL goto :LESS :GREATER_OR_EQUAL echo PCCON success >>"C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Cubemonitoring\Test.txt" Success" goto :EOF :LESS echo PCCON Failure >> "C:\Cognos_Data\Batch_Files\Cubemonitoring\Test.txt" exit;