[StumpedTechy]

I have this -

shutdown.exe /s /f /m \\MYCOMPUTER /t 15 /c "This PC is now being shut down for Administrative tasks. Any files left open will be lost."

In a batch file (we will call it batch.bat) I want MYCOMPUTER to be a variable and the information to come from a text file (we will call this computerlist.txt) that is going to list computer names like this.

MYCOMPUTER
THEIRCOMPUTER
YOURCOMPUTER

How would you loop this batch.bat command for each line in the computerlist.txt file and input it as a variable? Note computerlist.txt will be a changing document and some days may have 10 entries and others may have hundreds but the format won't change.

[StumpedTechy]

Never mind I am deciding to do this in VBS form.

[Squashman]

I know this sounds kind of crazy but you could use Shutdown or Poweroff with a batch file and have it loop thru your entire DHCP IP address range. This is another thing I can easily script in Linux, if Linux had the capability to shutdown a windows computer. Maybe there is a command line linux utility to do this. If there is, I could easily script it with a file list of all your computer names. If you installed Cygwin or something similar on Windows to give you a shell prompt, it would be rather easy. The windows command line just doesn't have the power of shell scripting on nix systems.

[Squashman]

I know you marked this solved but I think this should work in a batch file.

FOR /F "tokens=1" %%I IN (computers.txt) DO shutdown.exe -s -f -m \\%%I -t 20

I am getting an access denied but I think it is a policy setting I have on my computers here at home. This should work if the computers are attached to a domain and are NT based.

I think this is the reason why I get access denied.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20756919.html

[Squashman]

Now I feel dumb. I finally got it to work. I thouhgt I had Simple File Sharing turned off but apparently not. Because I had it checked it kept giving me that Access Denied message. Unchecked it and now it works. Yeah. I know you got this working thru a VBscript but thought I would take a crack at it and I got it to work. Yeah for me.

[StumpedTechy]

Ahhh okay I see so you would do For /f to parse the file tokens=1 ?is for each line? in the file specified then do indicates it needs to then run a command and shutdown with switches. Makes sense kicking myself for not thinking of this.

If you look at the Development page you will see why I went to vbs.

now I have it so it only runs the command on any PC that is actually active. I am also going to modify it further to output the ones down and give me a "log file"

So In all I am making this more complex and want to go to vbs.