Running vbs scripts from batch file

It's greatly appreciated! You can't use the CopyFolder or Run methods at the cmd. You must use these methods within the. That explains why command prompt won't recognize it, but again the VBScript does, and runs quite nicely, but the main issue here now is what the hell do I put after that to make the. As mentioned before, I can double click it and it will run and install the software with ease! Try running it in the command processor and waiting for it to finish before distroying the Shell object come to think of it the later is probably your problem As I understand it, all steps would be in the VBScript.

The complete VBScript program would be as follows:. Be very specific about what, specifically, you tried. The code that Richard posted is VBScript code. What this means is you must save those lines of code as a plain-text file with a. Is this what you are doing? I'll close this off for now as I found alternative software to install which I managed to deploy via an MSI I created. I was having a similiar problem because the batch file I ran didn't do what it was supposed to so I re-entered the command manually into PowerShell Installed on later Windows and it turned out that when the batch file started, it changed the current operating directory to someplace completely different and it caused issues because the operation needed the working directory to be correct.

The solution that helped out in my case was to add a directory change command in the beginnning of the batch file as:. Note: Do not rely on the WshShell. Just in case you're interested, I was trying to download files from an FTP site and the commands didn't enter very easily through Wscript. We could've also ran multiple commands in a one line call to cmd by seperating with Ampersands eg. This solved my problem.

Man we can do wonders with VB script. I also had a similar issue where I had not acknowledged the fact that my executing VBScript was in a directory up one level from the batch file which was being called upon.

ScriptFullName , file name, " objShell. Sleep objShell. Sleep Tags: Administrator runs batch , The administrator runs bat. The company has a new 20K test, which let me see what the real test ceiling is. Select the focus of the app, in this case we will be using Hidden. Provide a finished message if desired. Provide a path to save the executable. Configure if a restart is desired. Save your Self Extraction Directive. Asked 9 years, 11 months ago.

Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed 49k times. Is it possible to execute embedded VBScript within batch without writing a temporary file? Improve this question.

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. It is quite slow, but very convenient. It is restricted to executing a single line of VBS. GetStandardStream 1. Improve this answer. Your second solution with REM. Or is there an obscure situation where it does fail? Paul - Believe it or not, that line is a valid batch label.

EXE is chock full of idiosyncrasies like that. The characters before the colon are among a handful of characters that can appear before a batch label - something that jeb discovered and posted somewhere on DosTips.

If you are willing to go down the rabbit hole, then you can read about a host of crazy label rules at dostips. Show 10 more comments. I don't see how that helps for VBscript. Jscript and VBscript have totally different syntaxes. The real problem has been VBscript's lack of a multi-line comment.

The VBscript won't compile if a single batch line is exposed anywhere in the script. You are right, didn't think enough about the vbscript problematic before, I will change my answer to a helpful variant — jeb.

Ugly control chars vs. It works as follows: :: convert filename1. For example: test. BrowseForFolder 0, "Select a folder. It works! Aacini Aacini 61k 12 12 gold badges 65 65 silver badges 97 97 bronze badges.

And for some reason, sneaky.