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Re: Copying a VBS variable in powershell?

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Old 02-28-2008   #1 (permalink)
Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]
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Re: Copying a VBS variable in powershell?

On Feb 28, 3:44*pm, baron1211 <res0e...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Afternoon Folks,
>
> * *I have a question that I can't seem to find the awnser to. *Is it
> possible to copy the output of a wscript.echo in powershell? *I have a
> pretty large VBS that I don't have the time to convert right now. *And
> I am looking for a way to take the wScript.echo and past it into
> Powershell. *I get exactly what I want from the script and can launch
> Powershell from the script aswell. *Now I need to merge the 2.
> Wscript outputs to its box and I want to take what is in the box and
> copy it to the PS command line. *Is this even possible?
>
> Thanks for any input
>
> Daryl
if you run your wsh script with the cscript engine instead of wscript,
you should be able to capture the output of the VBS script, e.g.

ps> $output = (cscript myscript.vbs)

the $output variable will now be an array of strings, where each
element in the array is a single line of output from the script. Using
the cscript engine means that wscript.echo will output to the console
instead of message boxes where it would be very hard to capture the
output without resorting to dirty tricks.

Hope this helps,

- Oisin

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