Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Summary

In this chapter, you examined two basic concepts: passing command-line arguments and working with arrays. These two vital tools are heavily utilized on a daily basis in enterprise scripts. To make a script more flexible, for example, avoiding having to edit a script just to enable it to run against various servers on the network, you use command-line arguments. Arrays are used to make scripts more powerful, efficient, and robust. By storing multiple values in memory, you avoid having to make multiple calls to either the file system or to another source of information. Indeed, all you need to do is store your configuration information within an array, and you’re ready to go.