Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Heey all, Im very new to the whole scripting scene. I was wondering about what you use when someone is refering to Windows Scripting. I know a Windows Script (or for that matter a script in general) is a file, a piece of code, that automates certain actions for you. Am i right? or totally off? Anyway i was wondering what you used for this, Client side at the moment. Is it batch files? or something different? Thanks Jizz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I think it's like a batch file, but written in a language that is closer to VB? You'd use it to automate tasks that you perform fairly regularly in the exact same way, but that take several steps to complete and may require a bit of logic. An example would be a script that would look at your MP3 downloads folder, and based on the ID3 tags in them organize them in some special way, possibly re-encoding them in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 I see, so the best thing is to read up on Batch-files creation and the VB language? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Try scripting with Microsoft's PowerShell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 I will. Ill be looking into linux aswell shortly, is there a general scripting language that works on multiple platforms? or are they all Platform specific? Thanks. Jizz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 bash on windows baby! Said the Linux advocate. Windows doesn't even have dd! He added. random++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Windows doesn't even have dd! Savages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 This is why they call TomB god. http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonffen Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 pssh tomb is a cygwin lover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunex Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Try scripting with Microsoft's PowerShell. Best advice ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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