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Modern flavors of windows actually have at least three scripting engines installed by default: batch (.bat), WSH and whatever the back end to .cmd files is (rexx?).

For small operations on multiple files within the same director a FOR loop on the command line should all you need. a WSH script done in VBS would probably be easier to wrap your mind around, though. The batch language will utterly screw up your mind six ways from Sunday.

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