Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 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
cooper Posted August 21, 2007 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
Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 I see, so the best thing is to read up on Batch-files creation and the VB language? Quote
jollyrancher82 Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Try scripting with Microsoft's PowerShell. Quote
Jizzo Posted August 21, 2007 Author 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
Sparda Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 bash on windows baby! Said the Linux advocate. Windows doesn't even have dd! He added. random++ Quote
jollyrancher82 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 This is why they call TomB god. http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Quote
lunex Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Try scripting with Microsoft's PowerShell. Best advice ever. Quote
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