I would really appreciate some help

[PUGZSZ]

I am extremely new to coding in general, I am trying to find out how to write a program that can read a .txt file and then rearrange a name in the text file and insert that name inside of a cmd command back into that file and save it. For example if the text file says John Doe then it would change to DoeJ and be inserted into a psshutdown command like "psshutdown \\doej -f". I have no idea where to start and i would really appreciate the help.

[void_presence]

Not sure about the nature of the system you're on, but I found Python to be particularly good at parsing files and doing system commands. 
I used Python to go through any number of XML files and rename them according to their respective name tags in those files--not the same thing of course, but it did involve using system commands based on the contents of a file.  

 

If you're on a Linux/Unix system, you maybe able to use BASH scripts to do the same, but I'm not familiar enough on that to help you there.

[PUGZSZ]

3 minutes ago, void_presence said:

Not sure about the nature of the system you're on, but I found Python to be particularly good at parsing files and doing system commands. 
I used Python to go through any number of XML files and rename them according to their respective name tags in those files--not the same thing of course, but it did involve using system commands based on the contents of a file.  

 

If you're on a Linux/Unix system, you maybe able to use BASH scripts to do the same, but I'm not familiar enough on that to help you there.

I'm on a windows machine

[void_presence]

Python's still applicable.  The program I mentioned previously I wrote and used on a Windows machine

[xentropa]

You can get the bash working on windows 10 and use c++

[straight_stewie]

39 minutes ago, PUGZSZ said:

I am extremely new to coding in general, I am trying to find out how to write a program that can read a .txt file and then rearrange a name in the text file and insert that name inside of a cmd command back into that file and save it. For example if the text file says John Doe then it would change to DoeJ and be inserted into a psshutdown command like "psshutdown \\doej -f". I have no idea where to start and i would really appreciate the help.

I see that the answers are going to be all over the place. 

We need more information from you, what language have you been learning?

[PUGZSZ]

1 minute ago, straight_stewie said:

I see that the answers are going to be all over the place. 

We need more information from you, what language have you been learning?

I dont know much of anything, i've been trying to learn what i can

[straight_stewie]

Just now, PUGZSZ said:

dont know much of anything, i've been trying to learn what i can

So have you picked a language at all? Is this your first project? 

In any case, what else are your long term goals for programming?

[PUGZSZ]

It is my first program, i want to learn python in the short term. Long term i dont really know

[PUGZSZ]

1 hour ago, straight_stewie said:

So have you picked a language at all? Is this your first project? 

In any case, what else are your long term goals for programming?

Ive been looking into python and i have started to practice some but i cannot get a text file to be read and set as a string

 

[wasab]

CMD on windows is atrocious. Seriously, don’t develop on windows unless you obviously have to.

[leonfagan71]

5 hours ago, PUGZSZ said:

I am extremely new to coding in general, I am trying to find out how to write a program that can read a .txt file and then rearrange a name in the text file and insert that name inside of a cmd command back into that file and save it. For example if the text file says John Doe then it would change to DoeJ and be inserted into a psshutdown command like "psshutdown \\doej -f". I have no idea where to start and i would really appreciate the help.

So, something like this batch file?

@echo off
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
title Just a screwing yo mom....
for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (users.txt) do (
    for /F "tokens=1,2 delims=. " %%y in ("%%A") do (
        set userid=%%y
        set firstchar=!userid:~0,1!
        REM echo %%y %%z - !firstchar!
        set user=%%z!firstchar!
        echo Sending shutdown to \\!user!
        psshutdown \\!user! -f
        echo Shutdown sent to \\!user!
    )
)
pause

Just pop that into a notepad document and save it with the file extension as .bat

 

 

 

This is the contents of the users.txt file

john doe
Mary Poppins
Jack Black

Does the trick.

 

Regards,

Leon.

[straight_stewie]

7 hours ago, PUGZSZ said:

Ive been looking into python and i have started to practice some but i cannot get a text file to be read and set as a string

If you're goal is to learn how to program, then don't fall into the trap of making copy pasta out of results posted around. You will never learn anything other than how to be a non malicious "script kitty".

Are you using python 2.7 or 3.6? If you are unsure, you can find out by writing a program that imports the "sys" module, and then prints the result of the command "sys.version".

One of the best skills you can learn in programming is how to read documentation. Professional developers spend vastly more time reading documentation and communicating with other developers than they do actually writing code.