I’ve been using VBScript for a very long time. One drawback it has always had as a scripting language is an INCLUDE statement. In other languages you can use something like INCLUDE scriptfile at the beginning of the script. This would load any functions and variables in the specified script file into your current script. In PowerShell we can accomplish this by dot sourcing scripts. I never knew of a way to do the same thing with VBScript until now.
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INCLUDE in PowerShell
I recently had a couple of administrators who were upset that PowerShell doesn’t have a way to "include" files in a script. Basically, the idea is that you make a script which contains a bunch of commonly-used functions, and then "include" those inside other scripts. That way, the other scripts can take full advantage of […]
