[smartydebater]

HI, I need help writing a script. I need the script to do a search the c:/ drive for limewire. Then I would like the results of the search saved to a log file. I'd be using this script as a task in XP. I don't care what it's written in, as long as it doesn't take up too much memory and it will be easy to setup in XP.

Thanks

[Cache]

Originally posted by smartydebater
do a search the c:/ drive for limewire.

This doesn't really mean anything. Be more specific and the answers you get may be more helpful.

[smartydebater]

Okay, basically I want a script that will do a search on C:// for "limewire". Then I would like the results of the search saved to a log file.

Is that doable?

[bla!!]

Yup, just make a batch file and copy this code into it.

@echo off
dir \ /s | find "limewire" > c:\log.txt

change the c:\log.txt to the path of where you want the log file placed.

The only downside is that a msdos window will pop up while this command is completing. On my box it takes between 3 and 4 seconds to complete.

[office politics]

Originally posted by bla!!
The only downside is that a msdos window will pop up while this command is completing. On my box it takes between 3 and 4 seconds to complete.

you could suppress the gui by running a vbs script using the wshshell.run command and using 0 for the windowtype argument

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/wsh/17419.asp

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
intReturn = WshShell.Run("start batch.bat", 0, TRUE)

[bla!!]

Cool, I'll definitely use that tip csamuels.

Just for a follow up, we used this for the final code:

@echo off
dir \ /s | find "limewire" >> "c:\documents and settings\username\desktop\log.txt

We replaced > with >> so it would append to the log rather than overwrite it.