Let’s continue to look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in a batch file. Here’s what you might have for a command line menu system of common admin tasks:<\/p>\n
@AdminMenu.bat cls if errorlevel 4 GOTO :EOF :USER PAUSE :GROUP PAUSE :COMPUTER <\/font><\/p>\n ECHO Create New computer<\/font><\/p>\n PAUSE :EOF<\/font> <\/p>\n I’m echoing a menu to the screen and then using CHOICE to prompt the user to make a menu selection. The \/C switch lets met specify the choice options and \/M will be the message prompt. When run, the user should see something like this: <\/p>\n Admin Menu The cursor will wait at the prompt until the user makes a selection of 1,2,3 or 4. Any other selection will cause the computer to complain with a beep. The only other way to abort is to press Ctrl-C and break out of the script so you should always give the user an option to gracefully exit your script. <\/p>\n As I discussed last time, the selected option will correspond to an Errorlevel value so all I have to do is jump to the right section of the script: <\/p>\n if errorlevel 4 GOTO :EOF I probably don’t need the last GOTO :EOF statement since the user can only enter the choices I’ve made or CHOICE will beep and not move on. Still, I like including this to cover the unexpected so that the script will gracefully exit. It doesn’t cost me anything to keep it in.<\/p>\n Within each section, I just have placeholder code to indicate what each section will do. The Pause command waits for the user to press any key, and then script execution returns to the main menu.<\/p>\n :COMPUTER PAUSE I’ve got one more entry on this topic so stay tuned.<\/p>\n Let’s continue to look at CHOICE.EXE and how to use it in a batch file. Here’s what you might have for a command line menu system of common admin tasks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batchcmd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/font>GOTO :MENU
<\/font>:MENU<\/font><\/p>\n
<\/font>echo Admin Menu
echo 1 – Create User
echo 2 – Create Group
echo 3 – Create Computer
echo 4 – Quit
Choice \/C 1234 \/M “Enter a menu selection” <\/font><\/p>\n
if errorlevel 3 GOTO :COMPUTER
if errorlevel 2 GOTO :GROUP
if errorlevel 1 GOTO :USER
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
ECHO Create New user<\/font><\/p>\n
goto :MENU<\/font><\/p>\n
ECHO Create New Group<\/font><\/p>\n
goto :MENU <\/font><\/p>\n
goto :MENU<\/font><\/p>\n
1 – Create User
2 – Create Group
3 – Create Computer
4 – Quit
Enter a menu selection [1,2,3,4]?<\/font> <\/p>\n
if errorlevel 3 GOTO :COMPUTER
if errorlevel 2 GOTO :GROUP
if errorlevel 1 GOTO :USER
GOTO :EOF <\/font><\/p>\n
<\/font>ECHO Create New computer<\/font><\/p>\n
goto :MENU<\/font><\/p>\n