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Script to check file dates

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  • 16-01-2007 5:40pm
    #1
    Polonious
    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm looking to get a script (either vbs or a .bat file) that can check a file on 40 different PC's and return the modified date on that file. Anybody got an ideas. At the moment I can do a "DIR \\computername\share" and it will return the contents of the directory with that file which I then put in a .txt file, but it's still a bit messy.


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    markf909
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    Just having a quick look at the DIR command.

    If you do dir /T:[C|A|W] file.txt

    you can retrieve info on when the file was (C)reated, (A) Last accessed or (W) Last Written.

    I guess you could output the result to a txt file and then use sed to extract the info needed.


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx
    if you enter a computer name of "\\*" PsExec runs the applications on all computers in the current domain.

    you can then redirect the output to unique files on a server cos the cmd.exe runs locally on the computer
    psexec \\* cmd.exe /k dir filename > \\server\share\%computername%.txt

    for cmd it's /k or /c CBA looking it up ;)

    if you use -c you can copy a batch file to each machine if you need to do fancier stuff


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