Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Smooth Operator

One of the cool things you can do is use greater than and less than operators in your evaluation clause. What is so cool about greater than? you might ask. It makes working with alphabetic characters and numeric characters easy. If you work on a server that hosts home directories for users (which are often named after their user names), you can easily produce a list of all home directories from the letters T through Z by using the > S operation. This is illustrated in the following script:

strComputer = "." wmiNS = "\root\cimv2" wmiQuery = "Select Name, path, allowMaximum from Win32_Share where name > 's'" Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & wmiNS) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(wmiQuery) For Each ...