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Loop + Increment
Name: buee Date: September 26, 2008 at 13:33:20 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP3 CPU/Ram: P4 3.0GHZ 2GB PC5300 Product: HP POS
Comment:
I'm trying to set up a batch script that will produce a beep every 5 minutes for 30 minutes. I want to embed it inside a loop so I can use Ctrl+Break for convenience. Basically, the script will beep twice, wait 5 minutes, beep twice again, etc. until it hits the 30 minute mark. I already have the command to make it beep, wait 5 minutes, beep. But I need the syntax for the loop, increment, and variable setting.
Name: IVO Date: September 26, 2008 at 14:39:08 Pacific
Reply:
If you just have on hand the command to beep and wait, the loop is set up as
for /L %%j in (1 1 6) do ( your_command )
The above statement repeats six times the command(s) between the ().
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Response Number 2
Name: lee123abc Date: September 30, 2008 at 07:26:09 Pacific
Reply:
Buee.... what is your code for that if I may ask? I don't know if I am allowed to ask, in which case I appologise. It just interests me how you got a 5 minutes timer and a beep. I have something kind of close to a second timer, but by no means accurate.
Thank you
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Response Number 3
Name: buee Date: September 30, 2008 at 13:08:23 Pacific
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The wait command is ping 0.0.0.1 -n 1 -w 300000. It's the ghetto way of doing it since Microsoft keeps crippling their software. It basically pings a non-existant address once and waits 300000 ms for a response. The easy way to do it is drop the last 3 0's and then divide the remainder by 60 and that's what you have in minutes. I would post my code but it's a cluster right now and it's really long.
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