for i in {1..5}
do
    echo "Value: $i"
done

is clearly much easier to read.

The constant use of && is also a nightmare, in comparison to the c-style semicolon terminator used in bash scripts.

SET also seems pointless and completely illogical in comparison to other languages, where you can just do var=value;

No idea what the guys at Microsoft were on when they invented batch scripting...

I want to be able to run a script every x minutes that will check the status of a specific port. If the port shows activity, then check again in x minutes, but if the port is showing no activity, restart the PC..

From what I've read, it should look something like this ... Is this correct? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

REM CHECK PORT IS LISTENING (FOR SOCKISFIED TUNNEL)
CALL :PORTCHECK %_PPORT%
REM =======================================================================================
REM =   PORTCHECK - Check that Port is being used (for tunnels)
REM =======================================================================================
:PORTCHECK
netstat.exe -n -v -a -p TCP | FIND "ESTABLISHED" | FIND ":%~1" &>nul 2&>1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 CALL :SHUTDOWNIN
SHUTDOWN -r -t "%~1" && EXIT /B
EXIT /B

: Turn off the echo
@echo off
 
: Setting the color of background and text
color 0c
 
: Display nothing but add whitespace
echo.
 
@echo OFF
FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 x.x.x.%i
 
: Displaying text
echo Exporting System Info...
 
systeminfo /s x.x.x.x | findstr /c:"Host Name" >\\server
systeminfo /s x.x.x.x | findstr /c:"System Model" >>\\server
systeminfo /s x.x.x.x | findstr /c:"[01]" >>\\server
 
echo. 
echo. 
 
echo Service Tag: 
wmic /node:x.x.x.x bios get serialnumber >>\\server

I need the date format to be dd/MONTH/yyyy - MONTH = 3 char in uppercase. The date will always be the current one.

I need to incorporate this into a command to be run as a scheduled task along with another command which will create a different file that does not need this date in the command.

example of commands I will be using:

cautil "select conlog MSG='*forced*' START=18/DEC/2012 END=18/DEC/2012 LIST conlog expand=Y output=E:\forced-CONLOG.log"
rmtcntrl status > rmtcntrl-status.txt

I could work this out in perl, however no perl here.

Normally I'd say GRTFM, but since this is windows batch, hey what the heck. Here ya go.

@ECHO OFF
 
SET NPEXE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
SET NPIMG=notepad++.exe
SET NPINSTALLER=C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notenpp.6.2.Installer.exe /S
 
tasklist.exe /V /FO TABLE /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %NPIMG%" 2>NUL | FIND "%NPIMG% " >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 (
  ECHO %NPIMG% not running, starting
  START /D"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++" %NPIMG%
) ELSE (
  ECHO %NPIMG% already running, killing
  tskill %NPIMG%
  ECHO Starting installer
  START /D"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++" %NPINSTALLER%
  SLEEP 5
  ECHO Starting notepad++
  START /D"C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++" %NPIMG%
)

@echo off
color 09
 
echo loading 1 %
ping localhost -n 1 >nul
cls
echo loading 2 %
ping localhost -n 1 >nul
cls
echo loading 3 %
ping localhost -n 1 >nul
...
echo loading 100 %
ping localhost -n 2 >nul

1. check to see if application is running
2. if its open then close running app
3. then run installation.exe
4. then relaunch application

I have some of it already mentioned below. But im missing some of the other commands on the script

So in other words something like this. please fill what im missing.

@echo off
Var opened = false
If (notepad++ is opened)
tskill notepad++ > NUL
opened = true
c:notenpp.6.2.Installer.exe /S
if (opened = true)
start "" "C:Program Files (x86)Notepad++notepad++.exe"

Please HELP!!!!