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Task/Take-notes-on-the-command-line/JavaScript/take-notes-on-the-command-line.js

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+var notes = 'NOTES.TXT';
+
+var args = WScript.Arguments;
+var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
+var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8;
+
+if (args.length == 0) {
+    if (fso.FileExists(notes)) {
+        var f = fso.OpenTextFile(notes, ForReading);
+        WScript.Echo(f.ReadAll());
+        f.Close();
+    }
+}
+else {
+    var f = fso.OpenTextFile(notes, ForAppending, true);
+    var d = new Date();
+    f.WriteLine(d.toLocaleString());
+    f.Write("\t");
+    // note that WScript.Arguments is not an array, it is a "collection"
+    // it does not have a join() method.
+    for (var i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
+        f.Write(args(i) + " ");
+    }
+    f.WriteLine();
+    f.Close();
+}