These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool’s output.<\/p>\n
‘ The trick is to use the WshShell object’s Exec, not Run, method ‘run the command-line command – just as you’d type it into ‘objExec now represents the executing command. Our script ‘we can wait for it to finish running ‘we can get the exit code (note that this method ‘here’s where we get the output into a string var These examples show how to run command-line tools from within a VBScript, capturing the tool’s output. ‘ ‘ ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials – by Don Jones ‘ ‘ Run cmdline tools ‘ This shows how to launch a command-line ‘ tool and retrieve its output into a string variable ‘ to then do something with it. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,24],"tags":[342,346,55,56,354,379,386,388,394,996],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto","category-vbscript","tag-applications","tag-capture","tag-cli","tag-command-line","tag-external","tag-run","tag-stdout","tag-utilities","tag-vbs","tag-vbscript"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}'
\n' ScriptingAnswers.com Essentials - by Don Jones
\n'
\n' Run cmdline tools
\n'\tThis shows how to launch a command-line
\n'\ttool and retrieve its output into a string variable
\n'\tto then do something with it. For example, you might
\n'\tuse the InStr() function to determine if a specific
\n'\tstring exists in the command's output.<\/code><\/p>\n
\nDim objShell, objExec
\nSet objShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)<\/p>\n
\n‘Start > Run. Avoid running Cmd.Exe directly, because it
\n‘doesn’t actually return any output itself.
\nSet objExec = objShell.Exec(“dir”)<\/p>\n
\n‘doesn’t exactly wait for that to finish, but we can
\n‘keep in touch with it. objExec is an instance of the
\n‘WshScriptExec object, if you want to read the docs on it<\/p>\n
\nDo Until objExec.Status = 1
\nWScript.Sleep 100
\nLoop<\/p>\n
\n‘isn’t in the WSH Type Library so it doesn’t show up
\n‘in a lot of object browsers or code hinting menus,
\n‘but it should work on the latest version of WSH)
\nWScript.Echo “Exited with ” & objExec.ExitCode<\/p>\n
\nDim strOutput
\nIf Not objExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream Then
\nstrOutput = strOutput & objExec.StdOut.Read(1)
\nEnd If
\nWScript.Echo strOutput<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"