Hey, I need to write a little .bat script that will place a predetermined string of characters into the clipboard, ready for immediate pasting. Is there any way to do such a thing? For instance, in...

Ah thanks, buried under Tech Talk. Will I get busted if I repost over there? :-)

Hey, I didn't see a forum for shell scripting, so I hope this is the place to put it. As part of my new job, I'm learning a little shell scripting, working on an HP-UX system.

I'm trying to...

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

That's ok. Yeah, if and when I do it, it will be going in the middle of the night. But as of right now, I've kind of had to put it on hold.

Yeah, that's great, except you can't do that in a batch script. Thanks for the idea though. I haven't had time to look further into this yet, but as soon as I do, I'll let you know how it goes.

Well thanks for the reply anyway. I think I might have something figured out. As soon as I do, I'll update this thread.
Thanks.

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No ideas? Surely it's a simple solution. I've googled it to death but can't find anything. A batch command that could confirm whether a ping comes back successfully would be fairly useful,...

Hey, I'm a complete noob to batch commands. I just found that they might be somewhat useful for some stuff I'm doing, so I thought I'd try them out.

Anyway, I've got a batch file that calls a...