Forfiles Processes Scripts-Without Scripts!

摘要

One of our primary reasons for learning about non-GUI tools is to automate certain tasks. Often, however, the difficulty of automating a task isn't finding the command-line tool that accomplishes it but rather learning a necessary scripting language such as PowerShell or VBScript. You might remember a tool called For, which I covered in this column last year ("The Power of For," InstantDoc ID 96539). The For command essentially lets you script without scripting: It lets you apply certain commands to a series of flies or folders. This month, I want to take a look at a similar tool called Forfiles, which-in some ways-is more powerful than For. (Windows Vista includes Forfiles in the box for the first time, but it's been part of the resource kit since Windows 98.)