Reading an Edit box and writing a modded output

[chad57 0]

Hi guys, brand new to the forum and brand new to AutoIt. I am a systems engineer and am very novice at scripting and I have put together a Frankenstein script to do the following:

Run an MSI on remote machine(s) silently. My method of doing this is basically scripting a GUI on top of this command in the DOS prompt: \\Filepath\PSTools\psexec \\(AssetID(s)) -u domain\fakeuser -p fakepassword msiexec /i "\\PathToMSI\sweetMSI.msi" /qb

The way I am doing this is having the user enter the AssetID(s), path to MSI, username, and password and using those variables in the following line of code:

Run(@ComSpec & " /c \\FilePath\PsTools\psexec \\"& $input1 &" -u "& $input2 &" -p "& $input3 &" msiexec /i "& $input4 &" /qf" & @CRLF, @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_MERGED + $STDIN_CHILD)

My problem is this:

This command allows for multiple asset IDs to be used like this "\\Asset1,Asset2,Asset3 -u username etc...) I want to be able to take the user input from the Edit box I have where they enter AssetIDs separated by line breaks and then have them entered into the command with the syntax noted above. Here is the rest of my code so if it helps:

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#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
$MSIForm = GUICreate("Remote MSI Installer", 612, 394, 206, 124)
$Edit1 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 16, 40, 161, 298, $ES_WANTRETURN + $WS_VSCROLL)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "")
$CompName = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Enter Computer Names:", 16, 16, 116, 17)
$MSIPath = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 200, 40, 233, 21)
$User = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 200, 112, 121, 21)
$Pass = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 344, 112, 121, 21, $ES_PASSWORD)
$LabelU = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Username:", 200, 88, 55, 17)
$LabelP = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Password:", 344, 88, 53, 17)
$BrowseButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Browse .msi...", 448, 40, 81, 25, $WS_GROUP)
$RunButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Run", 504, 352, 89, 25, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetTip(-1, "Run the program")
$CloseButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 408, 352, 81, 25, $WS_GROUP)
GUICtrlSetTip(-1, "Quit the program")
$Edit2 = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 192, 152, 401, 185, $ES_WANTRETURN + $WS_VSCROLL + $ES_AUTOVSCROLL + $ES_READONLY)
GUICtrlSetData(-1, "")
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###


main()
Func main()



While 1
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    Select
        Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE or $msg = $CloseButton
            Exit
        Case $msg = $BrowseButton
            $File2open = FileOpenDialog ("Browse...", "C:\", "MSI Installer (*.msi)") ;returns the file path
            GUICtrlSetData($MSIPath, $File2open)       ;set input data
    EndSelect

If $msg = $RunButton Then RunButton()

WEnd
EndFunc

Func RunButton()

$result= _CMDreturn(@CRLF)
GUICtrlSetData($Edit2, $result)

EndFunc

Func _CMDreturn($sCommand) ; This function returns the output of a DOS command as a string
Global $input1 = GUICtrlRead($Edit1)
Global $input2 = GUICtrlRead($User)
Global $input3 = GUICtrlRead($Pass)
Global $input4 = GUICtrlRead($MSIPath)
$cmdreturn = ""
    $stream = Run(@ComSpec & " /c \\FilePath\PsTools\psexec \\"& $input1 &" -u "& $input2 &" -p "& $input3 &" msiexec /i "& $input4 &" /qb" & @CRLF, @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_MERGED + $STDIN_CHILD)
    While 1 ; loop through the return from the command until there is no more
        $line = StdoutRead($stream)
        If @error Then ExitLoop
        $cmdreturn &= $line
    WEnd
    Return $cmdreturn
EndFunc

As I said, I am a Systems Engineer, not a coder and I already know this code is probably very inefficient. Please be gentle

EDIT: changed the code to reflect what I have.

Edited June 16, 2011 by chad57

[ahmet 8]

Look for StringRepleace()

[chad57 0]

Awesome!! that worked!

I just did this:

$input5 = StringReplace($input1, @CRLF, ",")

and then I put $input5 in place of $input1 in my command!

Thanks for the help!