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newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the results... - 7/25/2005 2:57:10 AM

robertmckee14

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I need a script that will return an error message to a msgbox. basically if an error occurs the errormsg.txt file will contain an error msg otherwise it will be empty. so if the app fails i need to search through several directories for an errormsg.txt that isnt empty and output the contents of the file to a msgbox.

the output of a file to a msgbox is easy but the searching for a non empty errormsg.txt i cant do. the path for the search is along the lines of...

\project\*\_errormsg.txt

as there are many steps within each project that each have there own directory and could contain the non empty file.

Any advice?!

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/25/2005 10:29:09 AM

Country73

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Welcome to the VBScript Forum!

Are you wanting to add a step inside of your script to where it will display the error in a msgbox while also creating your errormsg.txt?
Or are you looking for a script that will search for the errormsg.txt and then pull the information out into a msgbox?

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/26/2005 12:39:40 AM

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HI,

The 2nd one. I want to search for the _errormsg.txt which has already been created by the application read the text from it and display it in a msgbox. The _errormsg.txt that i will need to read and display is identified by the fact that its not empty.

Havent been able to get it workin!!

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/26/2005 3:15:24 AM

Country73

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If the one you have now is not working, can you show what you're using?
(May just need to tweak the one you have instead of re-creating it)

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/26/2005 8:00:19 PM

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im back to square one im afraid as i deleted the code as i was goin along, as after an hour or so of playing around with it, things were starting to get a little messy to say the least!

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/28/2005 12:38:25 AM

Country73

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Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

I'll see what I can do on throwing a script together to search through folders until it finds the "errormsg.txt", then check to see if the errormsg.txt is blank or not.

Hopefully it won't take too long to throw this together, just as long as things don't get too overwhelming here at work.

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RE: newbie - Searching for a file and outputing the res... - 7/28/2005 1:08:39 AM

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OK, this should take care of it for you. This script was supplied by Xandros, here at the forum, which I just had to do a little modification on.
The only thing you should have to do is change the directory path.

'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const FIL = "errormsg.txt"                    'File we are looking for
DirWalk("C:\Documents and Settings") 'Change this to what you need

Sub DirWalk(parmPath)
   On Error Resume Next
   Set oSubFolder = fso.getfolder(parmPath)
       For Each oFile In oSubFolder.Files   ' look in the current dir
           If Err.Number <> 0 Then             ' if we get an error, just skip this entry
               Err.Clear
           ElseIf oFile.Name = FIL Then
           Set g = fso.GetFile(oFile)
           Set R = g.OpenAsTextStream(1,TristateUseDefault)
               Do While R.AtEndOfStream <> True
                   myMsg = myMsg & R.ReadLine & vbcrlf     'File contents
               Loop
               myLocal = oFile.Path               'Tell us where the file is located
               Wscript.Echo myLocal & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & myMSG
           End If
       Next
       For Each oSubDir In oSubFolder.Subfolders
          DirWalk oSubDir.Path                  ' recurse the DirWalk sub with the subdir paths
        Next
       On Error Goto 0                              ' Resume letting system handle errors.
End Sub

wscript.echo "Done searching"
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Let us know if this works out for you or not.
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