Showing results for April 2007 - Page 2 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I open a text file and replace the first 5 characters with the first 5 characters of the local computer name?-- EC Hey, EC. You know, you might find this hard to believe (his fellow Scripting Guys absolutely refuse to believe it), but sometimes the Scripting Guy who writes this column is all talk and no action. For ex...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that increments a counter each time a particular log file gets updated?-- HJ Hey, HJ. You know, lately the Scripting Guy who writes this column has been victimized by a disturbing phenomenon: he keeps getting phone calls from machines. For the past several nights the phone has rung in the Scripting Ho...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the local users who have an expiring password?-- JM Hey, JM. Thanks for the question. Before we answer it, however, we have a question for you: you don’t by any chance have any spare dice lying around, do you? That’s right, dice, the kind you use when playing board games and craps and stuff like th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether or not QuickTime is installed on a computer, and, if so, which version is installed?-- IU Hey, IU. You know, for some reason this column suddenly seems to have become a daily dancing column rather than a daily scripting column. After all, just yesterday we recapped the Scripting Son’s … dancing … exploi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tack a prefix onto the telephone numbers of all the users in my domain?-- JB Hey, JB. It’s Monday morning as this column is being written, and the Scripting Guy who actually writes this column is still a bit tired from driving across the state and back in order to attend his niece’s wedding. Yes, yet another a weddi...