Vbscript To search for a string in a list of Files

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I want to search in a particular folder through all the text files in the folder for the string "Login Failed" then if it is found I want it to copy the file where the string is found to another location. I have the below code but I am getting the error "File not found". Hopefully someone can help.

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dim filesys
set filesys=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim objShell 'instance of the wshSHell object
set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

strSearchFor = "Login Failed"
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "C:\TelnetLogs\Query1"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    'Wscript.Echo objFile.Name
strFile = "C:\TelnetLogs\Query1\objFile.Name"
    If InStr(oFSO.OpenTextFile(strFile).ReadAll, strSearchFor) > 0 Then
    filesys.CopyFile "c:\TelnetLogs\Query1\objFile.Name", "c:\TelnetLogs\Failures\objFile.Name"
    Else
    WScript.Sleep (100)
END If
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Posted 9-Jan-13 6:50am

Dustin Prevatt

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I would strongly recommend you to quite this obsolete and lame game in Windows scripting host and switch to the real thing: PowerShell. Since recent advent of v.3, it comes with really decent, minimalistic but fully functional IDE: stepwise debugging, intellisense, support for any OS and .NET API (with COM, which is also majorly obsolete) and great both interactive shell and programming model.

—SA

Posted 9-Jan-13 13:49pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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TZetlan · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-09T07:00:00

Based upon your syntax, it is looking for a file called objFile.Name instead of treating this as a variable. Try modifying your code to:

VB

dim filesys
set filesys=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim objShell 'instance of the wshSHell object
set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

strSearchFor = "Login Failed"
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objStartFolder = "C:\TelnetLogs\Query1"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder)

Set colFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in colFiles
    'Wscript.Echo objFile.Name
    strFile = "C:\TelnetLogs\Query1\" & objFile.Name
    set objFile = objFSO.getFile(strFile)
    if objFile.size > 0 then
        If InStr(oFSO.OpenTextFile(strFile).ReadAll, strSearchFor) > 0 Then
            filesys.CopyFile "c:\TelnetLogs\Query1\" & objFile.Name, "c:\TelnetLogs\Failures\" & objFile.Name
        Else
            WScript.Sleep (100)
        END If
    END If
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