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Self Deleting script - 7/7/2008 6:55:59 PM

4scriptmoni

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I need to delete my script once it finished running, has anybody everdone this?

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/7/2008 6:59:27 PM

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lol, should have searched google before posting, here is what I found but did not test it, yet

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/8/2008 12:56:59 AM

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i dont think the first one will work because the file would still be running when you tried to delete it.

What about

oShell.Run "cmd /c del " & WScript.ScriptFullName

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/8/2008 2:28:34 AM

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The first one works just fine. The scripting engine does not hold the file open with a lock during execution.

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/8/2008 3:20:24 AM

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Oh that's good to know. but will the Set objShell = nothing work since the script is being deleted before then?

Also, is that necessary? Because as soon as the execution finishes, which i assume would be there, it would clear the memory anyway.

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/8/2008 3:25:32 AM

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The script is being run from memory. The file resides on disk. Therefore the cleanup after the delete is legit.

In general the script engine will cleanup after itself fairly well, but I write many LONG running scripts and generally cleanup after myself.

In this instance there is no particular reason to do it, but also no particular reason not to do it.

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/8/2008 7:24:36 PM

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well my reason was simple, the script contatins passwords and I am running then remotely using psexec, so I copy then to the server call it using psexec...
but yes when I call with psexec, I also try to delete it from there, so I do it 2 times just to be sure...

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/9/2008 12:59:22 AM

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Why not just do a while loop?

Do While oFSO.FileExists(sFileWithPassword)
objFSO.DeleteFile(sFileWithPassword)
Loop

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RE: Self Deleting script - 7/9/2008 1:05:32 AM

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Instead of copying a script with passwords in it, you should copy a stub script which runs the other script off of a file share.

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