I have a bat file called "asbmon.bat that displays text "active." I
need to be able to run this program continuously and count the number
of times "active" is displayed. Is this something powershell can do?



Thanks,

--TJ

$count = 0
while ($true) {./asbmon.bat; $count++; $count}

would do what you want I think

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"techjohnny@xxxxxx" wrote:

> I have a bat file called "asbmon.bat that displays text "active." I
> need to be able to run this program continuously and count the number
> of times "active" is displayed. Is this something powershell can do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --TJ
>

Try something like this (use Ctrl-C to halt):

&{
while (1) {
cls
$i = 0
.\asbmon | % {if ($_ -match 'active') {$i++}}
"$i active"
sleep -m 250
}
}

--
Kiron

On Apr 18, 1:38 pm, "Kiron" <Ki...@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Try something like this (use Ctrl-C to halt):
>
> &{
> while (1) {
> cls
> $i = 0
> .\asbmon | % {if ($_ -match 'active') {$i++}}
> "$i active"
> sleep -m 250
> }
>
> }
>
> --
> Kiron

This is actually perfect. I would like to run this from a script, but
when I copy-n-paste into text file and run it, it tries to open it
with notepad and doesn't execute script.

On Apr 18, 1:38 pm, "Kiron" <Ki...@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Try something like this (use Ctrl-C to halt):
>
> &{
> while (1) {
> cls
> $i = 0
> .\asbmon | % {if ($_ -match 'active') {$i++}}
> "$i active"
> sleep -m 250
> }
>
> }
>
> --
> Kiron

nevermind, just renamed it to .ps1

On Apr 18, 3:08 pm, "techjoh...@xxxxxx" <techjoh...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Apr 18, 1:38 pm, "Kiron" <Ki...@xxxxxx> wrote:
>

> > Try something like this (use Ctrl-C to halt):

>

> > &{
> > while (1) {
> > cls
> > $i = 0
> > .\asbmon | % {if ($_ -match 'active') {$i++}}
> > "$i active"
> > sleep -m 250
> > }

>

> > }

>

> > --
> > Kiron

>
> nevermind, just renamed it to .ps1

How can I extend this to send an e-mail alert if the match number is
above 10?

Thanks,

--TJ

That's a whole 'nother thread, but there's a script on the repository
for sending email via SMTP ... it has a few extra things in it that
relate to gmail specifically, but it's here: http://powershellcentral.com/scripts/180

all you would need to do is, instead of the "$i active", do:

if($i -gt 10) {
Send-SmtpMessage "YOU@xxxxxx" "There are $i of them active!"
"Remember, don't get them wet! ... and lots of other useful
information can go here..."
}

On Apr 18, 9:44 pm, "Joel (Jaykul) Bennett" <Jay...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> That's a whole 'nother thread, but there's a script on the repository
> for sending email via SMTP ... it has a few extra things in it that
> relate to gmail specifically, but it's here:http://powershellcentral.com/scripts/180
>
> all you would need to do is, instead of the "$i active", do:
>
> if($i -gt 10) {
> Send-SmtpMessage "Y...@xxxxxx" "There are $i of them active!"
> "Remember, don't get them wet! ... and lots of other useful
> information can go here..."
>
> }

Perfect, but I'm using "Send-SmtpMail"

--TJ

On Apr 21, 9:35 am, "techjoh...@xxxxxx" <techjoh...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Apr 18, 9:44 pm, "Joel (Jaykul) Bennett" <Jay...@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>

> > That's a whole 'nother thread, but there's a script on the repository
> > for sending email via SMTP ... it has a few extra things in it that
> > relate to gmail specifically, but it's here:http://powershellcentral.com/scripts/180

>

> > all you would need to do is, instead of the "$i active", do:

>

> > if($i -gt 10) {
> > Send-SmtpMessage "Y...@xxxxxx" "There are $i of them active!"
> > "Remember, don't get them wet! ... and lots of other useful
> > information can go here..."

>

> > }

>
> Perfect, but I'm using "Send-SmtpMail"
>
> --TJ

OK. The programming that runs this query request a password, I can
specify the username from the command line, but it requires me to
enter the password, so how can I automate the input of the password
(which is probably not recommended, but need it)?

Thanks,

TJ