From: Gregg Nemesure 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in
news:402ac42e$1{at}w3.nls.net:

>>Or he could just use the native Windows facilities.
>
> Like dir|sort /blah /blah, or do I need to be reminded of something?
>
> I probably should drag out the 4NT, but this is in the agony ony range.
> It seems to be about 10-15,000 files, and this will have to be done
> 3-10 times.  If I know anything, it's that tweaking a script to do
> something for that few uses is non-productive.
>
> I think I remember more 4NT than I do grep + awk, even though the
> parser in 4NT is less dependable.  But this is Windows, after all.
>
> Did I say I was a fossil with a rotting brain, and that I don't have
> time for this?

I don't know if you mentioned which version of NT you are using, but many
commands and the command interpreter itself (cmd.exe batch language) became
more powerful in Windows 2000 than in predecessors. Just type /? after a
command to see its options, or look up the command in help.

If you can't do what you want with dir, sort, find, etc., you can certainly
do it with vbscript or jscript. Both of these are included in Windows 2000
and XP. Both support regular expressions, string manipulation, and file
system functions. I think especially VBScript is good for this sort of
thing, is pretty easy to learn, and has a lot of information about it
available on the Web.

See

        http://tinyurl.com/3bjfs

for Microsoft's documentation for jscript and vbscript.

Gregg

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