vbscript code to read input from text file avoiding manual efforts

Question

I am drilling down Internet to get Vbscript code, where input is read from text file one per line and pass it to the commands in script. I am just a beginner and need help with

Answer 1

If you are trying to get the pending windows update installs for a bunch of computers, you can use this in Powershell:

$computers = gc text_file_of_computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers) {
     ("-" * 30)+"`n" # Horizontal line

     Write-Host "Patches not yet installed for $($computer)" -f "Yellow"
     Get-Hotfix -co $computer| Where {$_.InstalledOn -eq $null}

     "`n"+("-" * 30) # Horizontal line
}

As you can see, we only show patches which have a $null value for InstalledOn, which means they have not been installed as yet.

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