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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete the duplicate entries in a tab-delimited file?-- ST Hey, ST. Before we start, is anyone out there familiar with the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure? Not Quite What I Was Planning is an interesting little book in which the editors of SMITH magazine asked peopl...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need a script that can read a file and, based on the contents, insert some additional lines of text into that file. Can you help me with that?-- JS Hey, JS. We’re sure that most of you have heard by now that Microsoft has made an offer to buy Yahoo!, an offer currently valued at around $42 billion. (Because the offer is bas...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Do you have a script that will enable me to enumerate all the values in a registry key?-- DG Hey, DG. You know, this past weekend the Scripting Guy who writes this column went out to buy doughnuts, a process that took much longer than it should have. Why did it take so long just to buy doughnuts? Because the woman in line in ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Let me first say that your stuff is great. Really helpful scripts mixed with great humor; you guys are pissa's (Australian slang for “funny”). I have a script that needs to open a file and check to see if two lines of text are in that file. If they are, then I leave the file alone; if they aren’t, I need to append the two line...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to determine the currency symbol that’s in use on a computer?-- IR Hey, IR. Before we get started today we wanted to mention that the Scripting Son picked up his second win in as many pitching starts the other day as the Juanita Rebels rolled past Franklin High School. The Scripting Son is now 2-0 for the sea...