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December 15, 2007Dec 15, 200712/15/07Hey, Scripting Guy! On my file servers I periodically want to check a folder to see if that folder or any of its subfolders have files that are no longer being updated. What I’d like to do is check each file in each folder to see if they’ve been modified in the past 90 days.
December 14, 2007Dec 14, 200712/14/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I have two text files that contain numbers. I need to write a script that can determine whether a given number exists in both of these text files. If it does, I need to delete that line from each of the two files.
December 13, 2007Dec 13, 200712/13/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I have an HTA that we use for data entry. On this form, some of the fields are mandatory and some of them are optional. I’d like to indicate the mandatory fields by making those text boxes a different color than the text boxes used for the optional fields.
December 12, 2007Dec 12, 200712/12/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I’ve seen scripts that let you delete all the files in a folder that are X number of days old. I have a different problem: I’d like to delete files that are X number of hours, or even X number of minutes,
December 11, 2007Dec 11, 200712/11/07Hey, Scripting Guy! I read one of your columns on replacing text in a file and I found it very useful. However, I have a somewhat more-complicated need: I want to replace text that includes both double quote marks and a tab character.
