Combination Ping, NSLOOKUP and echo from txt file script

[foxidrive]

Use this instead.

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findstr /i /c:"%~1" "home.txt" >>"file.log"

[MadFly]

for some reason that still returns nothing and file.log is empty.
the closest to working that i had so far was...

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:: Get Location of machine
:: replace tokens=3 with delims= to get the whole line
for /f "usebackq tokens=3" %%a in ("home.txt") do (
   echo "%%a"
)

however, this echos out everything in home.txt. and not only the location of specified IP or ONLY the line where the IP address is found.

[foxidrive]

Only you know what is in the home.txt file and in the %~1 term. 

Run this yourself to prove that it works.

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@echo off
echo Computer1 - basement>home.txt
echo Computer2 - treehouse>>home.txt
findstr /i /c:"Computer1" "home.txt" >>"file.log"

[MadFly]

ok, don't know what i did wrong or where it went wrong...
commented every step, echo'd what is happening.
cls the screen after each step and explaining the next step...

now it works like a charm again, and tells me only the IP and location of the hostname i originally searched for.

is there and way to only show the treehouse part after the Computer1 -

i have removed the >> file.log and now it echos out onscreen

[foxidrive]

Given this home.txt

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172.16.4.15 - Reception
172.16.5.155 - Server Room
then this should work.

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for /f "tokens=1,* delims=- " %%a in ('findstr /i /c:"%~1" "home.txt" ') do echo %%b

As mentioned in an earlier post, if your network is IPV6 capable then the ping test can fail and skip servers.

[MadFly]

nah its fine. its really fine if it echos out the ip as well as the - server room part from home.txt
when changed to your latest suggestion it again echos out nothing.

i believe very strongly that the network is not ipv6 enabled. however, ipv6 dhcp seems to be working.
but everything and all systems still work on the ipv4 addresses.

thanks again.

i am happy with

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findstr /i /c:"%IPAddress%" "home.txt"

[foxidrive]

Use this as home.txt which is what you said the format of the file was:

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172.16.4.15 - Reception
172.16.5.155 - Server Room
and run this as: myfile.bat 172.16.4.15 to prove to yourself that it works.  I did change the last %%a to %%b

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@echo off
for /f "tokens=1,* delims=- " %%a in ('findstr /i /c:"%~1" "home.txt" ') do echo %%b
pause


[MadFly]

if i could...
i would give you a medal 
Working as hoped it should work.

just had to add the

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%IPAddress% variable in the findstr line to allow it to follow the rest of the script.

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for /f "tokens=1,* delims=- " %%a in ('findstr /i /c:"%IPAddress%" "home.txt" ') do echo %%bthank you.