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Re: What should one read to learn VBScript?

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Mayayana wrote:
> "Peter Percival" <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote
> 
> | What should one read to learn about PowerShell?  I am new to PowerShell
> | but an experienced programmer.
> |
> 
>    Maybe someone else can answer that. Or there
> may be a PS group. As far as I'm concerned, life's
> too short for command line.
> 
>    PowerShell was designed to appeal to Linux people
> who are used to working in console windows with
> commands that are standalone applets. But in this
> case the applets are actually .Net programs. So
> .Net is a requisite.
> 
>     Imagine commandline Java. If that sounds
> like fun then maybe you want Powershell. But
> as a system of commandline applets it's really
> all about learning the commands rather than
> programming.
> 
>    Like WSH and WMI before it, PS is mainly aimed
> at admins. WMI turned out to be a vast system
> with very little value. WSH turned out to be a
> high-level programming system due to COM
> integration. PowerShell? It might be what you need,
> but you never did say anything about what you
> want to accomplish. If you want to get an admin
> IT job then definitely you want PS. Otherwise?
> 
>    Here's an example that might give you an idea
> of how it works. It's a discussion about searching for
> a word in a number of files.
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8153750/how-to-search-a-string-in-multiple-files-and-return-the-names-of-files-in-powers

Thank you.  It so happens that one thing I want to write is a find 
utility that is better than the "Type here to search" box in the lower 
left-hand corner of my screen.  (Most anything is going to be better.) 
So that will be genuinely useful.
> 
>    In VBScript that would be done in a way that's
> vaguely similar to the API: Get a folder object.
> Get the folder files as a collection. For Each
> through the files, opening them, searching the
> content as a string, creating a report to write
> to disk or show as a message.... that kind of thing.
> 
>    In PS it's more like DOS with endless switches
> and an unlimited possible number of commands.
> 
> 

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What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-17 12:55 +0000
  Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-17 10:25 -0500
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-17 21:50 -0500
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-17 22:49 -0500
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-18 12:42 +0000
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-19 21:28 +0000
      Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-19 21:59 +0000
        Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-19 18:06 -0500
          Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-20 14:15 +0000
      Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-19 17:06 -0500
        Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-20 14:20 +0000
          Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-20 09:40 -0500
      Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-19 17:20 -0500
        Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-19 17:52 -0500
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Sohel Alam <alam.sohel1990@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 17:19 -0700
  Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-17 22:44 -0500
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-18 12:40 +0000
    Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-18 09:27 -0500
      Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Special Access <nonyabidnezz@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-18 21:57 -0500
      Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-19 20:53 -0500
        Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-19 23:20 -0500
          Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-20 10:33 -0500
            Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2018-01-20 10:44 -0500
            Re: What should one read to learn VBScript? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2018-01-20 13:53 -0500

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