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Number   :  2411
Date     :  2002-07-05
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: A few tips in batch scripts
Size(KB) :  1


Kan,

Seeing your recent post on the use of /ec & /ce reminded me that it 
would sometimes be useful to be able to 'initialise' xxcopy's 
previous errorlevel to 0.

I have one particular task in which I use a fairly complex batch 
which carries out several checks on the passed parameters before 
carrying out a single xxcopy using those parameters. To make the use 
of the batch easy, this complex batch is called several times with a 
simple batch containing a list of parameters. Something along the 
lines of:

:: Parent batch file
xxcopy /cb0 \\initialise xxcopy error to 0
call mybackup src1 dest
call mybackup src2 dest
call mybackup src3 dest

:: Mybackup batch file
:: Do error checking, parameter checking, rotate logs if necessary,
:: write logs, etc.
xxcopy /cb ... \\do the xxcopy work using passed parameters
:: Check for and log errors
:: Return to parent

I currently handle this with 'if errorlevel' checks at the start of 
the batch and by manipulating the errorlevel at the end of the batch 
depending on the xxcopy error. It would be useful to simply 'set 
xxcopy_error=0' prior to the first call to the xxcopy batch so 
that /cb could then be specified.

Or is there already a way to set the xxcopy error to 0?

Garry

--- In xxcopy@y..., Kan Yabumoto  wrote:

> Here, the construct:
> 
> @echo off
> xxcopy /ec ...
> xxcopy /ce ...
> xxcopy /ce ...
> xxcopy /ce ...
> ...



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