Solved exit bat file

junieman · Mar 27, 2024

I have a bat file and would like to exit out of it if yesterday's date = SUNDAY OR SATURDAY.
Any other days the bat file would run correctly.

TechnoMage2021 · Mar 27, 2024

In the most general terms, you'd have to look for the DAY-DATA at the very first of the batch file and if it were Saturday or Sunday, then jump to END.
I've written b'zillions of batch files over the past 40 years or so, but I've never done exactly what you want to do.

I do believe it's possible to do what you want in DOS Batch File language, even though I can't give you the exact Syntax.

Good Luck,
TM

cereberus · Mar 27, 2024

junieman said:
I have a bat file and would like to exit out of it if yesterday's date = SUNDAY OR SATURDAY.
Any other days the bat file would run correctly.

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Wisewiz · Mar 27, 2024

junieman said:
I have a bat file and would like to exit out of it if yesterday's date = SUNDAY OR SATURDAY.
Any other days the bat file would run correctly.

Why not open Task Scheduler and Create a Task to run the batch file? In the settings for the Task, you can specify Monday to Friday (or NOT saturday or Sunday), and it will run at the time you set M-F, but not on Sa Su.

garlin · Mar 27, 2024

PowerShell can return DayofWeek as an integer.
0 = Sunday
1 = Monday
6 = Saturday

Code:

@echo off
powershell -nop "if ([int](Get-Date).DayOfWeek -le 1) { exit 1 }"

if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (
    @echo script exit
) else (
    @echo script continue
)

SIW2 · Mar 27, 2024

if yesterday's date = SUNDAY OR SATURDAY.

is that the same as todays date = Monday or Sunday

garlin · Mar 27, 2024

True. Except a numeric value works for any international locale.

junieman · Mar 30, 2024

Garlin,

Works great, thanks for the help.

pseymour · Mar 30, 2024

This would be a batch way to do it, but I'm a PowerShell person myself.

Batch:

for /f %%a in ('date /t') do (
if "%%a" NEQ "Mon" (
  if "%%a" NEQ "Sat" (
    echo do something here
  )
)
)

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