Can I be notified when a directory contains more than a configurable number of files?
Article ID: 206
Category: Scripts
Applies to: All Versions
Updated: 2019-07-29
You can launch the following VBScript through the application scheduler (e.g. every 1 minute) to be notified when the number of files in a given folder exceeds a configurable limit.
Note: The file needs to be saved with the .vbs extension and called it through cscript.exe.
You set the directory in the variable: DIRECTORY, and the number of files in the variable MAX_FILES.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 |
' Counts the number of files in a folder (without traversing subfolders), useful
' if you need to ensure that the number of files in a folder doesn't exceed a
' certain limit
'
' Returns 1 if the number of files is larger than MyLimit or 0 if the number
' of files is equal or less than MyLimit. Check return code through %ERRORLEVEL%.
Option Explicit
' Set your values here
const DIRECTORY = "C:\Batch"
const MAX_FILES = 200
Dim FS, FO, FC
Set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set FO = FS.GetFolder(DIRECTORY)
Set FC = FO.Files
WScript.Echo "Directory " & DIRECTORY & " contains " & FC.Count & " files."
' Set %ERRORLEVEL%
If FC.Count > MAX_FILES Then
WScript.Quit(1)
Else
WScript.Quit(0)
End If
|
