strComputer = “.”<\/p>\nSet objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\\\” & strComputer & “\\root\\cimv2”)<\/p>\n
Set colFileList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _\n (“ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_Directory.Name=’T:\\Act’} Where ” _\n & “ResultClass = CIM_DataFile”)<\/p>\n
For Each objFile In colFileList\n If InStr(objFile.FileName, “current”) Then\n objFile.Delete\n End If\nNext\n<\/PRE>\n
This script starts out – as many of our WMI scripts do – by binding to the WMI service on the local computer. (Of course, like most WMI scripts, this one can also be run against a remote computer.) We then use this query to return a collection of all the files in the folder T:\\Act:<\/P>
Set colFileList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _\n (“ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_Directory.Name=’T:\\Act’} Where ” _\n & “ResultClass = CIM_DataFile”)\n<\/PRE>\nNext we set up a For Each loop in order to walk through the collection of files. Inside that loop we use the InStr<\/B> function to determine whether or not the string current<\/I> can be found in the file name:<\/P>If InStr(objFile.FileName, “current”) Then\n<\/PRE>\nIf InStr is True that means that the string can, indeed, be found within the file name. In that case, we use a single line of code to delete the file:<\/P>
objFile.Delete\n<\/PRE>\nYep: it\u2019s that easy. We then loop around and repeat the process with the next file in the collection. By the time we\u2019re done any file in T:\\Act that had the string current<\/I> in its file name will have gone to that great hard disk in the sky.<\/P>\n
Or, to put it in terms that actually make sense, those files will have been deleted.<\/P>\n
Now if we could just do the same thing with that dumb orange car – it doesn\u2019t even have a hood! – that the neighbors have parked outside the house. And those blackberry bushes that keep trying to take over the yard. And \u2026.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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