Necessity is the Mother of Invention - Batch Job

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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Okay CEans, I just did this. I opened Microsoft Excel and at first, wrote down the URLs and names of the folders. The sheet looked this way:
  

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
  | https://netbeans.org/d...dows&lang=en&option=php | NetBeans IDE  |
  | https://www.eclipse.org/d...developers/indigosr1 | Eclipse IDE   |
  | https://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download | Aptana Studio |
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------+

  Then I created the directories for the same using this:
  

  mkdir NetBeans IDE
  mkdir Eclipse IDE
  mkdir Aptana Studio

  After that I browsed through the Internet to find how am I supposed to create a text file with some contents, using command line. I got this piece of info:
  

  echo Content > filename
  echo Hello World > New.txt

  This I thought of making use and tried to rearrange the Excel sheet this way:
  

  +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | echo | https://netbeans.org/d...dows&lang=en&option=php | > " | NetBeans IDE  | \Link.txt" |
  | echo | https://www.eclipse.org/d...developers/indigosr1 | > " | Eclipse IDE   | \Link.txt" |
  | echo | https://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download | > " | Aptana Studio | \Link.txt" |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

  Yup, I used Excel's good functions like fill, etc., and made this. Then I copied everything to notepad and used Find & Replace and replaced all the Tab characters to spaces and formatted the output. The final batch command was:
  

  echo https://netbeans.org/d...dows&lang=en&option=php > "NetBeans IDE\Link.txt"
  echo https://www.eclipse.org/d...developers/indigosr1 > "Eclipse IDE\Link.txt"
  echo https://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download > "Aptana Studio\Link.txt"

  Finally, I copied all the files using the same batch command! 😀 It was a pretty awesome experience, isn't it??? 😀
• 

  Kaustubh Katdare

  That's some Crazy Engineering, Praveen 👍
• 

  Dancer_Engineer

  That's work done awesomely! 👍
• 

  KenJackson

  Yes, that's one of the more novel uses of a spreadsheet that I've seen.
  
  But I enjoy routinely whipping out scripts to do this sort of thing.
  On Windows I always install Cygwin so I have a bash shell.
  And on my preferred Linux platform, the bash shell is native.
  
  Here's a script that does approximately that, though I'm not sure of the URLs.
  
  

  #!/bin/bash
  DIR=("NetBeans IDE"
      "Eclipse IDE"
      "Aptana Studio"
      )
  FILE=("netbeans-7.1-ml-php-windows.exe"
        "eclipse-jee-indigo-SR1-win32.zip"
        "Aptana_Studio_3_Setup_3.0.8.exe"
      )
  URL=(
  "netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?platform=windows&lang=en&option=php"
  "www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/indigosr1"
  "www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download"
  )
   
  for n in $(seq 0 2); do
      dir="${DIR[$n]}"
      file="${FILE[$n]}"
      url="${URL[$n]}"
   
      cd /tmp                # or ~/Desktop or wherever
      mkdir -p "$dir"
      cd "$dir"
      wget -c "https://$url/$file"
  done

• 

  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  KenJackson

  Yes, that's one of the more novel uses of a spreadsheet that I've seen.
  
  But I enjoy routinely whipping out scripts to do this sort of thing.
  On Windows I always install Cygwin so I have a bash shell.
  And on my preferred Linux platform, the bash shell is native.
  
  Here's a script that does approximately that, though I'm not sure of the URLs.
  
  

  #!/bin/bash
  DIR=("NetBeans IDE"
      "Eclipse IDE"
      "Aptana Studio"
      )
  FILE=("netbeans-7.1-ml-php-windows.exe"
        "eclipse-jee-indigo-SR1-win32.zip"
        "Aptana_Studio_3_Setup_3.0.8.exe"
      )
  URL=(
  "netbeans.org/downloads/start.html?platform=windows&lang=en&option=php"
  "www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/indigosr1"
  "www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download"
  )
   
  for n in $(seq 0 2); do
      dir="${DIR[$n]}"
      file="${FILE[$n]}"
      url="${URL[$n]}"
   
      cd /tmp                # or ~/Desktop or wherever
      mkdir -p "$dir"
      cd "$dir"
      wget -c "https://$url/$file"
  done

  Nice one, I thought of this, but I didn't wanna use programming here! 😛 I just used a Windows Batch file to keep all things right! 😀 Simple isn't it??? 😀
• 

  eternalthinker

  Cool !
  
  And for future uses, we may code a simple loop which takes content and link as inputs in each iteration 😀
  (And create necessary files with the input)
• 

  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  eternalthinker

  Cool !
  
  And for future uses, we may code a simple loop which takes content and link as inputs in each iteration 😀
  (And create necessary files with the input)

  Still wondering if loops work in Batch... I have been testing it for long!!! 😛
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  Ankita Katdare

  😲 whoa! Never thought that could be done. Will try it some time.
  Great sharing CEan praveen. 👍
• 

  Sahithi Pallavi

  Simply Awesome! I'll try it out 😀
  Praveen, you are really a Crazy Computer Science Engineer 👍
• 

  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Thankz Sada & AKD!!! 😁
• 

  Reya

  Thanks for sharing it geeky 😀
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  PraveenKumar Purushothaman

  Reya

  Thanks for sharing it geeky 😀

  Will share again if I become mad and do something great! 😀