Running an Opus script in Windows Scheduled Task?

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1

I have an Opus script (user command) that I want to run every evening at X time. Is that possible? Does opus support command line calls to run its script?

Thanks!

2

DOpusRT is a small utility program utilized by Directory Opus for various things. You can use it to send commands to Directory Opus from outside of Opus itself.
Use the /cmd parameter for this. For example, to display the Opus About dialog from a DOS prompt you could use the following command:

dopusrt.exe /cmd help about

The dopusrt keyword is supported by the external command system as a shortcut for the actual location of the dopusrt.exe program. Instead of specifying,
for example, c:\Program Files\GP Software\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe you can just use dopusrt.

3

I got an user command (touch_specific) that "touches" a specific directory, and all its files:

SetAttr RECURSE MODIFIED=now FILE="W:\foo\comp 2899\in\lab3"

I tried to execute it like this:

dopusrt /cmd user touch_specific

but that didn't work. What worked though is this:

dopusrt /cmd SetAttr RECURSE MODIFIED=now FILE="W:\foo\comp 2899\in\lab3"

Thanks! Directory Opus rocks!

4

Try just dopusrt /cmd touch_specific. The "user" keyword you have in there isn't required (and in fact, won't work at all as you've found.)

5

Follow up question: what if instead of setting modified date to now, I want to set it to 5 minutes in the past from now. Is there a way to perform date arithmetic in Opus?

6

I don't think the SetAttr command in Opus can do date arithmetic.

You could do it in the calling script, though, and then pass the date/time to the command.

(User commands can also take arguments and pass them to whatever they call so that shouldn't be a problem.)