jeff-lewis / batchfunctionlibrary

Library of Windows batch functions

Table of Contents

• About
• Usage
• Library Contents
  • Tutorials
  • Date and Time Functions
  • File and Directory Functions
  • Network Functions
  • System Functions
• Revisions
• Copyright and License

About

This web based library was created in 2002 and featured a collection of date and time conversion functions. Later additions includes file, network and system functions. The library is no longer developed and is now archived on Github. Note, the webpages were designed for display in a treeview which itself was written in PHP/Javascript. The treeview code has largely been removed. Some of the internal hyperlinks might be broken, but you should have little trouble finding the target page. Happy batching!

Usage

Download and extract the archive, open the page of interest in a browser. Copy and paste the function to use in a batch file.

Library Contents

Tutorials

Title	Description
Batch Function Overview	What are they, why use them, and what do they look like?
Using the Functions	How to use the functions, with examples.
Batch Functions Explained	Detailed examination of batch functions.
Reading Files	How to read lines from any position in a file.

Date and Time Functions

Function	Description
DateToDays	Converts a calendar date to the number of days elapsed since 1970-01-01
DateToDOW	Returns the day of week number for a given calendar date
DateToMins	Converts a calendar date to the number of minutes elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00
DateToMJD	Converts a UTC date to a Modified Julian Day
DateToOrdinal	Returns an ordinal date from a calendar date as described by ISO 8601
DateToSecs	Converts a calendar date to the number of seconds elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00
DateToWeek	Returns an ISO 8601 Week date from a calendar date
DayName	Returns the name of the day of week from the day of week number
DayNumber	Returns the number of the day of week from the day of week name
DaysToDate	Converts the number of days elapsed since 1970-01-01 to a calendar date
GetDate	Returns the local system date
GetTime	Returns the local system time
MinsToDate	Converts the number of minutes elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00 to a calendar date and time
MJDToDate	Converts a Modified Julian Day to a UTC date
MonthName	Returns the name of month from the month number
MonthNumber	Returns the number of month from a month name
OrdinalToDate	Returns a calendar date from an ISO 8601 Ordinal date
SecsToDate	Converts the number of seconds elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 to a calendar date and time
WeekToDate	Returns a calendar date from an ISO 8601 Week date

File and Directory Functions

Function	Description
FileSizeComp	Compares the size of a specified file
GetDirStats	Returns the number of files, subdirectories and total size of a specified directory
IsDirEmpty	Determines if the specified directory is empty
IsInPath	Determines if the specified files are in the current directory or in a directory listed in the path statement

Network Functions

Function	Description
GetDG	Returns the default gateway
GetIP	Returns the IP address of the primary adapter
GetMAC	Returns the MAC address of the primary adapter
GetNA	Returns the network address of the primary adapter
GetSM	Returns the subnet mask of the primary adapter

System Functions

Function	Description
GetOS	Returns the operating system version
IsRunning	Determines if the specified service is running
Sleep	Suspends execution of the current batch file for a specified interval
Timer	Returns the number of elapsed seconds since the function was last called and first called
Uptime	Returns the elapsed days, hours, minutes and seconds since the system booted

Revisions

Revision	Date	Changes
1.0	2016-06-18	The webpages that make up the library have been removed from www.commandline.co.uk and archived at Github.

Copyright and License

Code and documentation copyright 2002-2016 Ritchie Lawrence. Code released under MIT License