[nick1]

Greetings,
i have a .txt file called 'Master' and 75 user directories each containing the same 'Master' .txt file.

When i make changes to this 'Master' file i then have to copy & paste it into each of these 75 user directories.

So, my question is:

is there a script that can do all of this for me? A script that looks for changes in the 'Master' file and, if it detects changes, updates the 'Master' file in the 75 user directories.

Thank you for your time,

Nick

[feha]

Hi
I suggest You that master.txt file you move to one level up of your user dirs ...
And change the path on your application to find master.txt in that new location ...
(I supose the content of master.txt is the same ...)
regards

[nick1]

umm....

huh?

[Skeleton Man]

May I ask what the purpose of this file is ? There may be a better alternative to 75 copies of the same file.. If you really have to do this, use the File::Find module; this will get you a recursive listing of a given directory, from which you can work on your own code to copy a file or whatever...

[nick1]

Thank you for replying,

Roster.txt is a roster file that contains 75 user names. This file is used with the Merak Instant Messaging server and with Miranda Instant messanger, both which use the jabber protocol to communicate.

Each user has a folder which is called their username (whatever it may be). Inside that folder is a folder called ~IM then inside that folder is the roster.txt file. I too have a copy of the roster.txt file. I make changes to this file when need be then copy it into the user folders so that their roster.txt file is also updated.

I don't know much about coding however. I've tried using junction points in windows (which are similiar to symbolic links as used in unix) however junction points only create a link to a directory - i need FILE link junctions - because there are other files within the users folder other then roster.txt.

Can someone please help me out.

Thank you for your time,

Nick

my O.S. is winXP pro

Originally Posted by Skeleton Man

May I ask what the purpose of this file is ? There may be a better alternative to 75 copies of the same file.. If you really have to do this, use the File::Find module; this will get you a recursive listing of a given directory, from which you can work on your own code to copy a file or whatever...

[loftinlouie]

You could create a batch file with the following:

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo.
echo Deleting any existing colorado_users.txt & cp_dict_log.txt files.

if exist "colorado_users.txt" del "colorado_users.txt"
if exist "cp_dict_log.txt" del "cp_dict_log.txt"

echo.
echo.
echo Piping the dir /b command to a text file named colorado_users.txt.
echo.
echo Please note you need to change co* to something like *.* or whatever your naming convention for users begins with.

dir /b "c:\Documents and Settings\co*" > "colorado_users.txt"

echo.
echo.
echo Adding the read-only attribute to the specified file.

attrib +r "dict.vtc"

echo.
echo.
echo Then 'for' runs the xcopy /c/r/k/y/v "filename" "<path>" command and pipes it to a log file.
echo.
echo As you already know you could replace the > with >> to append to a log file instead.
echo.
echo It replaces %%a with the names it found in colorado_users.txt.

for /f %%a in (colorado_users.txt) do xcopy /c/r/k/y/v "dict.vtc" "c:\test\Documents and Settings\%%a\application data\ccwin\" > "cp_dict_log.txt"

echo.
echo.

pause

[phprogramming]

php could do it SO easily