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Re: What should one read to learn VBScript?

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"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

  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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