close an open file by name

[Guest drdraxx]

I'm looking for a way to be able to close an open file by name on a

Windows 2003 Server Standard automatically. In a few google searches,

I found people listing a command to close all open files:

 

for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %a in ('net files') do net files %a /close

 

and one to close individual files:

 

net file ID /close

 

The problem with that is knowing the file ID. To test I tried to open

a file on the server, check the ID, close the file and open it again

but the ID changed. Does anyone know of a method I could use to close

one specific file by name by say a scheduled task or .bat file or

anything like that?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: close an open file by name

 

 

"drdraxx" <drdraxx@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> I'm looking for a way to be able to close an open file by name on a

> Windows 2003 Server Standard automatically. In a few google searches,

> I found people listing a command to close all open files:

>

> for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %a in ('net files') do net files %a /close

>

> and one to close individual files:

>

> net file ID /close

>

> The problem with that is knowing the file ID. To test I tried to open

> a file on the server, check the ID, close the file and open it again

> but the ID changed. Does anyone know of a method I could use to close

> one specific file by name by say a scheduled task or .bat file or

> anything like that?

>

 

You could try oh.exe to obtain the file ID of an open file. Oh.exe

comes with the Windows Resource Kit.

[Guest Brian Spolarich]

Re: close an open file by name

 

 

"drdraxx" <drdraxx@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> I'm looking for a way to be able to close an open file by name on a

> Windows 2003 Server Standard automatically.

 

psfile does this quite well for shared files.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PsTools.mspx

[Guest drdraxx]

Re: close an open file by name

 

On Jul 23, 11:55 am, "Brian Spolarich" <bria...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "drdraxx" <drdr...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:1184952859.985132.187460@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

>

> > I'm looking for a way to be able to close an open file by name on a

> > Windows 2003 Server Standard automatically.

>

> psfile does this quite well for shared files.

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PsTools.mspx

 

 

Thank you for the help. Before I actually saw this response, I

figured it out. I had to change up the "for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %a

in ('net files') do net files %a /close " command to take more tokens

and do an if statement. Here is what I ended up using in a .bat file:

 

@echo off

for /f "skip=4 tokens=1,3*" %%a in ('net files') do if %%b == [path

\filename I was looking for] net files %%a /close

 

This basically took the ID and stored it in variable a and took the

path and stored it in variable b. The loop then just went line by

line through the net files list (starting at line 4 from the skip) and

did a compair on the path\filename I was looking for. If it found it,

then it would close the file with the ID tag it got from the same

line.