Question

Create text file from VBSript

Asked by: sdipietro

I have been tasked with writing a VBScript that is being used to determine if our corporate antivirus definitions are over 7 days old.  This will be  used by our management platform to automatically generate an alert.  I have been able to get it where it generates the output into a pop up window, but I need it to create a text file called vipreage.txt on the C: drive.  I have been trying  to find an answer to this but scripting has never been a strong suit of mine.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile("c:\Program Files\Sunbelt Software\SBEAgent\Definitions\defver.txt")
wscript.echo DateDiff("d", objFile.DateLastModified, Now())

                                  
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2009-05-14 at 11:53:06ID24409769
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Answers

 

by: satheeshmPosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:01:50ID: 24388333

Hi,

You are near to solution. you can create text file using file system object. Check the below code sample.

dim fs,fname
set fs=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set fname=fs.CreateTextFile("c:\test.txt",true)
fname.WriteLine("Hello World!")
fname.Close
set fname=nothing
set fs=nothing

 

by: sdipietroPosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:02:54ID: 24388361

satheeshm,

Would that just be added below the existing text?

 

by: gregcmcsePosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:10:47ID: 24388478

Replace the "wscript.echo" line with these lines:

set myFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("c:\vipreage.txt",True)
myFile.WriteLine DateDiff("d", objFile.DateLastModified, Now())
myFile.Close
set myFile = Nothing

 

by: satheeshmPosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:13:55ID: 24388517

no.. it creates a new file. you want create new file or you want to append to an existing text file.

to create a new file use the below code. I added code to your existing code.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile("c:\Program Files\Sunbelt Software\SBEAgent\Definitions\defver.txt")
wscript.echo DateDiff("d", objFile.DateLastModified, Now())
dim fname
set fname=fs.CreateTextFile("c:\vipreage.txt",true)
fname.WriteLine("Hello World!") \\ Change this to what ever you want to write into the file
fname.Close
set fname=nothing
set objFSO=nothing

 

by: satheeshmPosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:14:59ID: 24388527

okay.. if you dont want alert remove the echo from that code

 

by: gregcmcsePosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:25:59ID: 24388668

If you want to append to your output file rather than overwrite it everytime, change it to this:

ForAppending = 8
set myFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("c:\vipreage.txt", ForAppending,True)
myFile.WriteLine DateDiff("d", objFile.DateLastModified, Now())
myFile.Close
set myFile = Nothing

 

by: sdipietroPosted on 2009-05-19 at 05:09:33ID: 24420954

Thanks Guys!  I was able to get the script working by using what you both gave me.

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