On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 1:28:15 PM UTC-5, Tim Rude wrote:   
   > On 2/24/2018 2:22 AM, Auric__ wrote:   
   > > noelicic wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 at 11:19:29 PM UTC-7, Jim Robinson wrote:   
   > >>> I just finished (for now) combining a bunch of little 'functions' into   
   > >>> one 600+ line script (most of which is error checking and logging).   
   > >>>   
   > >>> That got me to wondering what the longest production script the folks   
   > >>> here who really know what they're doing have written.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I'm just curious.   
   > >>   
   > >> For me, it is probably my batch "os". The current line number in v3.0 beta   
   > >> is around 2,300   
   > >   
   > > That's nice and all, but Jim posted that ***FOURTEEN YEARS AGO!***   
   > >   
   >   
   > He started trying to beat 600+ lines 14 years ago and it's taken him   
   > until now to finish it. :)   
      
   My longest batch script is about 1900 lines.  However, it uses several batch   
   scripts I have in the BLIP batch library on sourceforge.  It basically does   
   the equivalent of a configure, make, and building an installer for an app   
   that's part Java, part C, with a few little interactive components for   
   configuring the type of build (e.g. debug/release), running the build after   
   compilation and versioning the installer.   
      
   I also had a pretty large batch script to collect ping information of computers   
   on the network before pushing out updates since people would turn off their   
   computers for the day.  I also had several scripts that would do database   
   maintenance that like adding/deleting users, cleaning log entries, etc, when   
   I was managing an application database.   
      
   Don't use batch scripting every day, but in the right scenario it can save   
   hundreds of man hours in the long run.   
      
   Best regards,   
   John D.   
      
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