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Who's good with command line programming?

I'm trying to write a batch file that will automate switching a virtual KVM method with UltraMon and Synergy. basically 2 commands need to be run when either when starting or stopping (along with switching input on the screen itself).
What I don't know how to do, is how to detect if a certain program is running.

basically, this is how it needs to run:

code:

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if synergys.exe is running {
   exit program synergys.exe
   run "c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe" /e
} else {
   run "c:\program files\synergy\synergys.exe" -a pieceofcrap:24800 -d FATAL
   run  "c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe" /d
}

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IMO python would be a much better solution to this

python code:

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###define function for the processes
import win32pdh,os
def get_processes():
    win32pdh.EnumObjects(None, None, win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
    junk, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,'Process', win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)

    proc_dict = {}
    for instance in instances:
        if proc_dict.has_key(instance):
            proc_dict[instance] = proc_dict[instance] + 1
        else:
            proc_dict[instance]=0

    proc_ids = []
    for instance, max_instances in proc_dict.items():
        for inum in xrange(max_instances+1):
            hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery() # initializes the query handle
            try:
                path = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Process', instance, None, inum, 'ID Process') )
                counter_handle=win32pdh.AddCounter(hq, path) #convert counter path to counter handle
                try:
                    win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq) #collects data for the counter
                    type, val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue(counter_handle, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG)
                    proc_ids.append((instance, val))
                except win32pdh.error, e:
                    #print e
                    pass

                win32pdh.RemoveCounter(counter_handle)

            except win32pdh.error, e:
                #print e
                pass
            win32pdh.CloseQuery(hq)

    return proc_ids
x=get_processes()
if synergys.exe in x:
os.system("exit program synergys.exe")#this could be subed with a pid and killtask if you did a dictionary look up
else:
    os.system('"c:\program files\synergy\synergys.exe" -a pieceofcrap:24800 -d FATAL')
    os.system(' "c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe" /d')

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that would require that python is installed on my pc, which its not...

you could just compile the python into an exe but that would require python and py to exe, i would but i don't use exe anymore
[edit: or just install python]

Something like this should do it:

code:

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@echo off
tasklist | find /i \"" & synergys.exe & "\" >nul
if %errorlevel% EQU 0 (
    taskkill /f /im synergys.exe
    cd "c:\program files\ultramon"
    ultramon.exe /e
) ELSE (
    cd "c:\program files\synergy"
    synergys.exe -a pieceofcrap:24800 -d FATAL
       cd "c:\program files\ultramon"
    ultramon.exe /d
)

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Dempsey got it... Although he made a woopsy with the find parameters:

code:

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@ECHO OFF
tasklist | find /i "synergys.exe" 1>NUL 2>&1
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 (
     taskkill /f /t /im synergys.exe
     "c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe" /e
)
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 (
     "c:\program files\synergy\synergys.exe" -a pieceofcrap:24800 -d FATAL
     "c:\program files\ultramon\ultramon.exe" /d
)

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PS: other changes:
- 1>NUL 2>&1 will also surpress error messages on screen.
- Reason for 2 seperate IFs instead of the IF tHEN ELSE like before is so that the second one is not executed when an error (=errorlevel 2) occurs in the FIND command.
- Added parameter /T to taskkill command which will kill the process tree instead of only the process.
- No reason to first change the current directory to the respective program folders

Ah yea, I had the speech marks escaped because I copy and pasted it from a FileMaker script. 

I was close!

Don't forget that taskkill.exe is only available in the Professional edition of Windows XP! Not sure about Vista though.

I have xp pro, so all is well. Thanks cookie and dempsey, I'll try it out tonight

Having a problem with the second half of the script with synergys.exe. The batch file won't continue running because synergys.exe is still running. ultramon.exe won't start until synergys.exe stops. Any way around that?