VLAR bat

Hi,

I've never used a bat file before so I need some guidance on how to edit one to spot VLAR so I can abort them before they start. I've got this saved as a .bat file, it produces the read out text, but never spots the VLAR tasks. I don't get many, but the few I've had have never been spotted. This is what my bat file looks like for my XP Home system.

find /n "<true_angle_range>0.00" C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.* > vlarfound.txt

saved as a bat file, so what am I doing wrong?

Edit: Also, is this something I have to run each time I want to find VLAR or just everytime I start up Windows?
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yes, I tried that one too. Made the changes to reflect my OS, but didn't work either. Probably would work for me if I had Vista.

Really looking for what i've done wrong on mine though, but I'll try this one again.

thanks.
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Ok, thanks, I made that change. Will see what happens, apparently I don't have any ATM
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Ok, thanks, I made that change. Will see what happens, apparently I don't have any ATM

Ok, thanks, I made that change. Will see what happens, apparently I don't have any ATM

FINDSTR is more useful than FIND since it does not output names of files that do not contain the searched-for string. I think the problem lies in the spaces included in the path to your data files. So this should work better:

findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0.00" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > vlarfound.txt

Note the extra quotes round the file path.

Right-clicking on the output text file and "Open-with" Wordpad makes it much easier to read, especially if you set Wordpad to "no-wrap".

Hope this helps.

F.

That helped immensely, and has spotted the VLAR for me finally. I appreciate letting me know what the problem was in mine so I can avoid such errors on my part in the future.

Thanks for your help Fred W and Maik. I'm a happy camper now.

Hi,

That's really cool too, thanks.

I took what you gave me and applied it to what Maik posted and came up with

@echo off
echo VLAR Tasks found:
echo.
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > con:
echo.
echo Done.
pause 0.

I guess it's done correctly, it seems to work. Doesn't tell me the actual AR for each task this way but, it does give me the correct WU's in the ARs I'm looking for, so it's perfect for me.
Also went ahead and got the one Maik posted to work too.

findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > low_ar.txt
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[2-9] <true_angle_range>1\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > medium_ar.txt
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>1\.[2-9] <true_angle_range>[2-9]\.[0-9] <true_angle_range>[1-9][0-9]\.[0-9]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > high_ar.txt

I wasn't getting the right path on that one all along too lol

Thanks again.
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Hi,

That's really cool too, thanks.

I took what you gave me and applied it to what Maik posted and came up with

@echo off
echo VLAR Tasks found:
echo.
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > con:
echo.
echo Done.
pause 0.

I guess it's done correctly, it seems to work. Doesn't tell me the actual AR for each task this way but, it does give me the correct WU's in the ARs I'm looking for, so it's perfect for me.
Also went ahead and got the one Maik posted to work too.

findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > low_ar.txt
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>0\.[2-9] <true_angle_range>1\.[0-1]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > medium_ar.txt
findstr /n "<true_angle_range>1\.[2-9] <true_angle_range>[2-9]\.[0-9] <true_angle_range>[1-9][0-9]\.[0-9]" "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu\*.*" > high_ar.txt

I wasn't getting the right path on that one all along too lol

Thanks again.

Yep, good point. Much easier to see using m for the first batch file example. Using n on the second example with multiple AR gives me the AR included with the WU in the text file, where m doesn't.
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Yep, good point. Much easier to see using m for the first batch file example. Using n on the second example with multiple AR gives me the AR included with the WU in the text file, where m doesn't.

I'd already decided to use the version of the one you created without the text file the most. It has the info I need to know about which VLAR tasks to abort, and is one step. That works well for me :) my desktop is cluttered enough.

Sometimes I do get curious, and will use one of the others, depending on the AR I'm curious about seeing, but I only edited the ones I mentioned to see what the differences were, as well as to know that I could edit them successfully.

Thanks for the tip about word pad, I'll set up whichever one I end up using to get a text file with that. I tend to create/edit the batch files in notepad (old habit from doing html), but always look at the results in word pad, so that will come in very handy.

BTW the servers just gave my pc's some work so hopefully it won't be much longer before you're crunching away.

Thanks again
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I tend to create/edit the batch files in notepad (old habit from doing html), but always look at the results in word pad, so that will come in very handy.

BTW the servers just gave my pc's some work so hopefully it won't be much longer before you're crunching away.

Thanks again

I found this batch-file in this forum thread on Seti Beta

Regards,
Kevin

<snip>
I tend to create/edit the batch files in notepad (old habit from doing html), but always look at the results in word pad, so that will come in very handy.

BTW the servers just gave my pc's some work so hopefully it won't be much longer before you're crunching away.

Thanks again

Yeah, Notepad for writing, Wordpad for reading - me too. Comes with long experience.

And no worries, still crunching away. I still have 15 AP's unstarted in my cache as well as many MB's. The AP's alone will take 50+ hours to get through on the 3 cores I have devoted to S@H.

F.

<snip>
I tend to create/edit the batch files in notepad (old habit from doing html), but always look at the results in word pad, so that will come in very handy.

BTW the servers just gave my pc's some work so hopefully it won't be much longer before you're crunching away.

Thanks again

Yeah, Notepad for writing, Wordpad for reading - me too. Comes with long experience.

And no worries, still crunching away. I still have 15 AP's unstarted in my cache as well as many MB's. The AP's alone will take 50+ hours to get through on the 3 cores I have devoted to S@H.

F.

I ditched both and replaced it by Notepad+, it doesn't crash on large files, tabbed screens, and I think it handles Unix/Mac line endings too. You could easily go one step further with the multitude of free syntax highlighting editors useful for things like XML editing.