I was writing a script for automation to deploy web part in share point. So first step was to retract the solution if exists in solution strore of sharepoint. But in case if there is no solution like that in solution store stsadm simply throw an error message “”xxxxxxx.wsp” does not exist in the solution store.”. I simply wanted to show a custom message in place of this error message.
After struggling a hour i could find the solution for this. Below is the sample script for that..
@echo off
SET STSADM=”%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin\STSADM.EXE”
SET SolutionWSP=xxxxx.wsp
SET URL=”http://localhost”
echo – Retract the solution if exists
%STSADM% -o retractsolution -name %SolutionWSP% -local -url %URL% 2>NUL
if errorlevel == 0 goto :Flag1
echo ### No solution found like %SolutionWSP% in store
echo.
goto endOfScript
:Flag1
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Custom script
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:endOfScript
echo.
pause
Actually tweak was of NUL keyword in script.
Write Your Command Here >NUL
:: Above >NUL statement will hide output of if command executes successfully.
Write Your Command Here 2>NUL
:: Above 2>NUL statement will hide error message of if command fails
Write Your Command Here 2>NUL >NUL
:: Above 2>NUL >NUL statement will hides both successful or error message.