WOT: Scripting Question[Scanned]

[Laurence Orchard]

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:40 +0100, Chris Bradford wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 20:15 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >   
> >> Chris Bradford schrieb:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> Unfortunately in my environment I still have a few windows (yes i 
> >>> know!) servers, and on one of them I am trying to make a script that 
> >>> will interpret a text file called 'disc.txt' that looks like this:
> >>>
> >>>                   jo tynan                 15  Disc    
> >>> wdica                                 KIML                      1  
> >>> Disc    wdica                                 
> >>> sararyan                  6  Disc    rdpwd              
> >>> *There ARE spaces at the beginning of each line for some reason.*
> >>>
> >>> The file is generated every hour by the command:
> >>>
> >>> qwinsta /SERVER:servername | find "Disc" > disc.txt
> >>>       
> >> I wouldn't have expected "find" in this command. Wouldn't that be "grep"?
> >>     
> >
> > I think the script is running on Windows, where "find" is a close as it
> > gets to grep, and isn't the Unix-like "find" command.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> >   
> Paul,
> 
> You are right there, I was hoping to 'reverse engineer' a Unix like 
> command, but I'm not having much progress!
> 
> -Chris

Why try to reverse engineer it? Why not just use the source?


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Laurence Orchard

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