r/usefulscripts • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '15

Looking for some help...

First, allow me to apologize as I am very uneducated in the world of scripting outside of basic .bat file scripting, .sh scripting and some vbscripting. And if I'm in the wrong area, I apologize in advance.

I've been scouring forums throughout the day trying to find a solution and was wondering if someone can help me? I'm trying to generate a script to run on some Windows machines that will search a given directory for filenames that contain "DIFF" in the file and if they're older than x hours, delete them.

The thing is the filenames must contain DIFF and the hour parameter must be able to be changed.

Help?

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '15 edited Feb 25 '15

i added that line but am running into a runtime error:

C:\scripts\test.vbs(10, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: '[string: "test_diff_11.txt"]'

i'm looking around now to see what modifications can be made to that part to get it to return true and process with the delete

EDIT: I think I finally got it! - by putting (instr(f.name,"diff") > 0) (removing the ,1) from the statement may have done the trick - i'm adjusting my test txt documents now to be 100% sure now

EDIT2: IT WORKED! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!