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for deploying an asp.net solution. I've been Googling a bit for a general error handling approach and can't find anything really useful. Basically if any thing goes wrong I want to stop and print out what went wrong. Can anyone give me any pointers? batch-file share|improve this question edited Apr 29 '14 at 11:28 John Saunders 138k20175321 asked Jul 22 '09 at 9:15 bplus 2,87494574 add a comment| 5 Answers 5 active batch script error handling oldest votes up vote 34 down vote I generally find the conditional command concatenation operators much more convenient than ERRORLEVEL. yourCommand && ( echo yourCommand was successful ) || ( echo yourCommand failed ) There is one complication you should be aware of. The error branch will fire if the last command in the success branch raises an error. yourCommand && ( someCommandThatMayFail ) || ( echo This will fire if yourCommand or someCommandThatMayFail raises an error ) The fix is to insert a harmless command that is guaranteed to succeed at the end of the success branch. I like to use (call ), which does nothing except set the ERRORLEVEL to 0. There is a corollary (call) that does nothing except set the ERRORLEVEL to 1. yourCommand && ( someCommandThatMayFail (call ) ) || ( echo This can only fire if yourCommand raises an error ) See Foolproof way to check for nonzero (error) return code in windows batch file for examples of the intricacies needed when using ERRORLEVEL to detect errors. share|improve this answer edited Apr 29 '14 at 11:24 answered Jun 13 '13 at 11:27 dbenham 78k11114180 Would u mind to provide a simple example with copy or del commands, pls? –Dimi Dec 17 '13 at 14:00 Much n
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batch file to join together a bunch of processes triggered by batch files... When bash error handling everything works its great, but my error handling sucks. I've tried using the %ERRORLEVEL% variable to crudely trap my errors, but my outer calling batch http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164049/batch-files-error-handling file never goes into error: call Batch1.bat if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto failed echo ...Completed Batch1, %ERRORLEVEL% call Batch2.bat if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto failed echo ...Completed Batch2, %ERRORLEVEL% Call Batch3.bat if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 goto failed echo ...Completed Batch3, %ERRORLEVEL% goto end :failed echo ....ERROR Please check logs https://coderanch.com/t/132733/gc/DOS-batch-file-error-handling for further details, %ERRORLEVEL% :end endlocal The output I end up with is: ...Completed Batch1, 0 .......BATCH2 ERRROR, Please check logs for details ...Completed Batch2, 0 ...Completed Batch3, 0 Obviously the Batch2.bat file is erroring - but the error is not being passed back. Is there a way around this? Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic New Topic Similar Threads how to redirect the tomcat (5.0) console output to a text file how to run mvn commands using ms bat file How to trap a java exception where java is invoked from a .bat file Setting up the Java Web Services tutorial and Sun Java system appn server Cruise control giving wrong status in email. All times are in JavaRanch time: GMT-6 in summer, GMT-7 in winter Contact Us | advertise | mobile view | Powered by JForum | Copyright © 1998-2016 Paul Wheaton
Checking and Running as Scheduled Tasks ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Paul Adams (ex-MSFT)June 6, 201016 0 0 0 Batch files may be considered “old hat” by a lot of people (or a complete mystery to the younger ones!) but they are sometimes still the easiest https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mrsnrub/2010/06/06/batch-files-basic-error-checking-and-running-as-scheduled-tasks/ way to execute simple jobs as they have practically no requirements other than a command shell process to run within – yes there is a strong probability that a script could achieve an identical (or at least equivalent) result, but the fact is that it will be more complex and therefore longer to create and administer. Something that trips up a fair number of people is the difference between double-clicking a .BAT file and scheduling it as a task to error handling run at a certain time, on a trigger or on a schedule – it can seem that the batch file just simply does not run at all, and the return code sent back to the Task Scheduler is often 0x2, “path not found”, even though the file most definitely is there. When you double-click a .BAT or .CMD file through Explorer, a cmd.exe process is started to provide the environment in which it will run. The credentials used batch error handling are your own (or more correctly, inherited from the Explorer process). The “current working directory” is set to that where the batch file lives. When the Task Scheduler service starts the same batch file it actually invokes an instance of cmd.exe (as SYSTEM impersonating the user whose credentials are defined in the task) to carry out the process and waits for it to exit with a return code – the current working directory for this process is not that of the batch file, but that of cmd.exe itself. i.e. %windir%\system32 Now, if your batch file assumes that you launched it through Explorer or from an existing command prompt with the current working directory set to its own location, you can run into problems. One simple way to verify if your batch file should work as a scheduled task is to call it from an existing cmd.exe process from a different current working directory (such as your profile, or a temp folder). Be very, very careful if your batch file does any kind of file deletion – especially if wildcards are involved – you do not want to be in the wrong context when doing this (especially not a system folder or your profile!). The trick is to do some basic error checking at the start and throughout your batch files, and possibly even some rudimentary logging by piping messages to a file. One simple sol