Question

List Files by File name AND Last Modified Date

Asked by: Slucena

Hi,

I have this script in VBS that generates a list of results sorted by name.
How can I sort also by last modified??
I need a sort by name and next, sort by last modified.

Can you help me?

thanks in advance

'DocScan Report Program
'Scans folders for old files, and generates a report
'Reads a text file for options of folders to scan, file types and age
 
Const ForReading = 1
Dim aDirs
aDirs="D:\"
Dim aExts
Dim dOptionsDate
dOptionsDate=cdate("01/01/2008")
Dim strSortBy
Dim intFileCount
Dim intTotalMB
Dim iMsg 
Dim iConf 
Dim Flds, fName 
Dim strHTML
Dim strSubject
Dim strFrom
Dim strAttachment
dim mailSTR
Const adVarChar = 200
Const adDouble = 5
Const adInteger = 3
Const adDate = 7
Const adCurrency = 6
Const MaxCharacters = 255
'strFile="options.ini"
bDebug=False
Dim log
 
Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set oregexp=new regexp
oregexp.global=true
oregexp.ignorecase=true
 
'******************************
'read the Options.ini file
'*****************************
call ReadOptions()
 
Set DataList = CreateObject("ADOR.Recordset")
DataList.Fields.Append "Path", adVarChar, MaxCharacters
DataList.Fields.Append "Size", adDouble, MaxCharacters
DataList.Fields.Append "Age", adInteger, MaxCharacters
DataList.Fields.Append "LastMod", adDate, MaxCharacters
DataList.Open
 
baseDate = Now - dOptionsDate
 
'*************************************
'loop through all folder to read files
'*************************************
for i=lbound(aDirs) to ubound(aDirs)
  on error resume next
  Set fl = fso.GetFolder(aDirs(i))
  If err.number <> 0 then
    Err.Clear
  Else
    'set up regexp search pattern based on extensions from options file
    'pattern should appear something like "^[w- .]+.(com|pif|vbs|vbe|exe|bat|cmd)$"
    strpattern="^[w- .]+.("
    for j=lbound(aExts) to ubound(aExts)
       strpattern = strpattern & (aExts(j))
       if j <> ubound(aExts) then strpattern = strpattern & "|"
    next
    strpattern = strpattern & ")$"
    if bDebug then wscript.echo strpattern
    oregexp.pattern=strpattern
    'call routine to scan folder and recurse through subfolders
    Call ScanFolder (fl)
  End If
next
 
'Write results to file
WriteLogFile
 
'**************************************************************************
Function ScanFolder(fl)
  on error resume next
  Dim sfls, sfl, f, fs
  Set fs = fl.files
  if bDebug then wscript.echo oregexp.pattern
  if bDebug then wscript.echo fl.path
  'loop through each file
  For Each f In fs
    fileName = F.Name
    sFileExt = right(fileName,4)
    IF sFileExt = ".mdc" then
        IF bDebug then wscript.echo f.name
        If f.DateLastModified < baseDate and oregexp.test(f.name) then
          intFileCount=intFilecount+1
          intTotalMB = intTotalMB + (f.size/1024)
          DataList.AddNew
          DataList("Path") = f.name
          DataList("Size") = f.size/1024
          'DataList("Age") = now-f.DateLastModified
          DataList("LastMod") = f.DateLastModified
          DataList.Update
          err.clear
        End If
    End if
  Next
  set sfls = fl.SubFolders
  'recurse through subfolders
  For Each sfl in sfls
    ScanFolder sfl
  Next
End Function
 
'**************************************************************************
Sub ReadOptions()
'Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'if objFSO.fileexists (strFile) then
  'Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile (strFile, ForReading)
  'Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
    'strTextLine = objTextFile.Readline
    'select case ucase(mid(strTextLine,1,4))
      'case "DIRS"
        'strValue=mid(strTextLine,7,len(strTextLine)-7)
        strValue="D:\Cognos OLAP\JAC_IMS"
        aDirs=split(strValue,";")
      'case "EXTS"
        strValue="mdc"
        aExts=split(strValue,";")
      'case "AGE="
        dOptionsDate=365
      'case "SORT"
        strSortBy="lastmod"
    'end select
  'Loop
  'objTextFile.Close
'else
  'no options file - abort
  'kill message box
 ' retval=oShell.AppActivate("** DocScan Report **")
  'if retval then oShell.SendKeys "{Enter}"
 
 ' wscript.echo "DocScan Error #1 - no options.ini file found.  Program aborted."
  'wscript.quit(1)
'end if
 
if bDebug then
  strmsg="DIRS" & vbcrlf
  for i=lbound(aDirs) to ubound(aDirs)
    strmsg=strmsg & vbtab & aDirs(i) & vbcrlf
  next
  strmsg=strmsg & "EXTS" & vbcrlf
  for i=lbound(aExts) to ubound(aExts)
    strmsg=strmsg & vbtab & aExts(i) & vbcrlf
  next
  strmsg=strmsg & "Date=" & dOptionsDate & vbcrlf
  strmsg=strmsg & "Sort By=" & strSortBy & vbcrlf
  wscript.echo strmsg
end if
End Sub
 
'**************************************************************************
Sub WriteLogFile()
 
 
mailSTR = "<html>"
 
mailSTR=mailSTR & "<header></header>"
mailSTR=mailSTR & "<body>"
 
DataList.Sort = strSortBy
DataList.MoveFirst
mailSTR=mailSTR & "<table>"
Do Until DataList.EOF
  mailSTR=mailSTR & "<tr>"
  mailSTR=mailSTR & "<td>" & DataList.Fields.Item("Path") &  "</td>" & _
      "<td>" & formatnumber(DataList.Fields.Item("Size"),1,0,0,-1) & "</td>" & _
      "<td>" & formatnumber(DataList.Fields.Item("Age"),0,0,0,-1) & "</td>" & _
      "<td>" & DataList.Fields.Item("LastMod") & "</td>"
	mailSTR=mailSTR & "</tr>"
	'mailSTR=mailSTR & "<br>"
    DataList.MoveNext
Loop
mailSTR=mailSTR & "</table>"
 
'write trailing data to output file
mailSTR=mailSTR & "</body>"
mailSTR =mailSTR & "</html>"
 
End Sub
 
'**************************
'envia eMail com lista
'**************************
 
set imsg = createobject("cdo.message")
set iconf = createobject("cdo.configuration")
                        
Set Flds = iConf.Fields
With Flds
    .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
    .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.eu.com"
    .Update
End With
 
strHTML=mailSTR
strSubject = "IMS"
strFrom = "sales_ims@its.com"
 
                                
With iMsg
    Set .Configuration = iConf
        .To = "sergiolucena82@gmail.com"        
        .From = strFrom 
        .Subject = strSubject 
        .HTMLBody = strHTML
           
        .Send
    End With
                        
Set iMsg = Nothing
Set iConf = Nothing
                                  
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Answers

 

by: RobSampsonPosted on 2009-09-15 at 23:47:12ID: 25342580

Hi, this should already sort by last modified date, as you have this:
DataList.Sort = strSortBy

where strSortBy is
strSortBy="lastmod"

earlier in the code.

You should be able to change that line to
strSortBy="path,lastmod"

to sort by both.

Regards,

Rob.

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