TargetFolder = “C:\\Logs” \nSet objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”)\nSet objFolder = objShell.Namespace(TargetFolder) \nSet colItems = objFolder.Items\nFor Each objItem in colItems\n objItem.InvokeVerbEx(“Print”)\nNext\n<\/PRE>\nAll we\u2019re doing here is connecting to the C:\\Logs folder and then grabbing a collection of all the items found in that folder. We store the set of files in the variable colItems, using this line of code:<\/P>
Set colItems = objFolder.Items\n<\/PRE>\nNote that we\u2019ve made it easy on ourselves in this example by making sure that C:\\Logs contains only log files, and that we want to print each of those files. If C:\\Logs contains other files, files that we don\u2019t<\/I> want to print, you\u2019ll have include code that distinguishes between the files you want to print and the files you don\u2019t want to print.<\/P>\n
After stashing the set of files in colItems, we use a For Each loop to loop through all the items in the collection. For each item in the collection (in other words, for each file in the folder) we use the InvokeVerbEx method, and we tell InvokeVerbEx that we want to print each file:<\/P>
objItem.InvokeVerbEx(“Print”)\n<\/PRE>\nThat\u2019s it. Run this script and all the files will dutifully print, one right after the other.<\/P>\n
Now what if we wanted to do something else, something like, say, edit each file? No problem; just replace the Print parameter with the appropriate parameter name from the context menu:<\/P>
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TargetFolder = “C:\\Logs” \nSet objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”)\nSet objFolder = objShell.Namespace(TargetFolder) \nSet colItems = objFolder.Items\nFor Each objItem in colItems\n objItem.InvokeVerbEx(“Delete”)\nNext\n<\/PRE>\nKeep in mind, too, that you might not be able to use all<\/I> the options that appear in the Context menu. For more information on determining which options are available to you and which ones are not, check out this section of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide<\/B><\/A>. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of text files in a folder. Is there a way to print those files using a script? I know I can use Microsoft Word to print the files from a script, but I don\u2019t have Microsoft Word installed on that computer.— MA Hey, MA. Don\u2019t tell anyone from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[445,404,3,4,707,14,5],"class_list":["post-71303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-client-side-printing","tag-printing","tag-scripting-guy","tag-scripting-techniques","tag-shell-application","tag-text-files","tag-vbscript"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"
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