Background
This is a small example Windows Script File (WSF) that can be used in certain work flows.This work flow involves dealing with files that are created in the In folder.
Due to some issue with a process upstream in this work flow, some of the files that appear in the In folder are missing their file suffix. For reasons outside the scope of this article, this cannot be rectified upstream, and, because it is known that these files all should have a .txt suffix, this script appends the required suffix where there is no suffix.
The script is supplied with an In and an Out folder path.
The Code
<job>
<script language="JScript">
// Technology Is Not Dull 2020
// Get in and out folders as named arguments
var InFolder = "";
var OutFolder = "";
if(WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("in")){
InFolder = WScript.Arguments.Named("in");
}
if(WScript.Arguments.Named.Exists("Out")){
OutFolder = WScript.Arguments.Named("Out");
}
// If there is an in and an out parameter
if(OutFolder!="" && InFolder!=""){
// Create objects to get the files and copy them
var objFSO=WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
var objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(InFolder);
var colFiles =objFolder.Files;
// Remove any trailing '\' in supplied Out path
OutFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(OutFolder);
// For each file in the In folder
for(var objEnum = new Enumerator(colFiles); !objEnum.atEnd(); objEnum.moveNext()) {
sFileName = objEnum.item();
sOutName = OutFolder +"\\";
// This assumes that any file with no file suffix
// is actually a .txt file and adds the suffix for the copied filename
if(objFSO.GetExtensionName(sFileName) == "")
{
sOutName = sOutName + objFSO.GetFileName(sFileName) + ".txt";
}
else
{
sOutName = sOutName + objFSO.GetFileName(sFileName);
}
// Copy the file (overwriting any existing file)
objFSO.CopyFile (sFileName,sOutName,true);
}
// Quit with value 0
WSH.Echo("Done");
WSH.Quit(0);
}
// Else there are one or more missing parameters
//so quit with error
else
{
WSH.Echo("Missing Named Parameter(s)");
WSH.Quit(1);
}
</script>
</job>
Operation
The script is tested with a folder structure based on "C:\Some Folder\Documents\Javascript\test folders" with two sub folders 1 and 2.
Folder 1
Folder 2
The parameters are named using /<name>:<value>.
C:\Some Folder\Documents>cscript JScriptExample.wsf /In:"C:\Some Folder\Documents\Javascript\test folders\1" /Out:"C:\Some Folder\Documents\Javascript\test folders\2\"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Done
C:\Some Folder\Documents>
As you can see the files have been copied with the suffix added to the file without the suffix.
References
A brief look at JavaScript on various systems including Windows Script Host can be found here.
