Vista - Executing secondary command in shell.run

Hello

I want to run some commands consecutively with shell. See below,

set shell=createObject("wscript.shell")
set fso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set f=fso.createTextfile("c:\put.txt", true)

with f
.writeline "dir"
end with

shell.run "%comspec% /k ""C:\program files\windows azure
sdk\v1.0\bin\setenv.cmd"" -s:c:\put.txt", 1, true

f.close

How do you run the second command "dir" here? Currently the first command
setenv.cmd runs well. In real world scenario I will add some more commands
after the "dir".

Thanks

Hi Han,

the scripts genearates a batch on zhe fly. So you should be able to simply add some commands.
..writeline "Some command"Dirk

Sorry its early here in Germany ..


Correct Code here...

set shell=createObject("wscript.shell")
set fso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
If fso.FileExists("C:\put.cmd") Then _
fso.deleteFile("C:\put.cmd")
set f=fso.createTextfile("c:\put.cmd", true)

with f
.writeline "dir c:"
.writeline "dir d:"
end With

shell.Run "%comspec% /k ""C:\put.cmd""", 1, true

"Han" <hp4444@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:14E4F8BF-6E79-4A9E-AE02-65E84D0CBDBC@xxxxxxOn most WXP systems, there is a Help & Support item available from the start
button. Help & support typically links to ntcmds.chm for command-line
related queries. Unfortunately, on many computers such as those made by
Compaq/HP, they make it impossible to run ntcmds.chm separately from the
help and support center, so you can't use the CHM search facility to
directly find what you want. My Compaq's help & support center is
particularly unhelpful, in that when searching for "command shell overview",
I get only one hit: MS-DOS overview. We all know that there is no MS-DOS in
WXP.

Anyhow, on a systems where the manufacturer hasn't messed up ntcmds.chm, it
contains a section called 'Command Shell Overview", and it contains info on
running multiple commands.

The & character is the command separator.
Syntax:
command1 & command2

Of course, there may be times when you want to run command2 only if command1
runs successfully. For this, use two ampersands:
command1 && command2

There may also be times when you want to run command2 only if command 1
fails. For this, use two pipe characters:
command1 || command2

You might also want to group or nest multiple commands. For this use
parentheses:
(command1 & command2)

Parameters for the commands can be separated by semicolons or commas:
command1 parameter1;parameter2

HTH

-Paul Randall

On Feb 13, 5:47*pm, "Paul Randall" <paul...@xxxxxx> wrote:Yes. Here's the demo code

option explicit
Dim strCmd1, strCmd2, strCmd3
Dim oShell

Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell")
strCmd1 = "dir /x"
strCmd2 = "dir /w"
strCmd3 = "pause"
oShell.Run "%comspec% /c" & strCmd1 & " && " & strCmd2 & " && " &
strCmd3,1,true
Set oShell = Nothing

Han wrote:Change put.txt to put.cmd, write all commands to it, then run put.cmd
instead.

set shell=createObject("wscript.shell")
set fso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
set f=fso.createTextfile("c:\put.cmd", true)

with f
.writeline "@echo off"
.writeline "call ""C:\program files\windows azure
sdk\v1.0\bin\setenv.cmd"""
.writeline "dir"
.writeline "other commands"
end with

shell.run "c:\put.cmd", 1, true

f.close

--
Todd Vargo
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Thank you very much Dirk, Paul, Tomy, and Todd Vargo.
I am trying one by one all of your recommandations.
They seem to help me a lot.

I will let you know the result. Currently Simple commands like "dir"
perfectly works. Not that the colud service command lines per se. I am happy
to see the legendary kindness of this NG persists.

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Hello again

I think I am nearly at there except miner issue.

Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell")

strCmd1 = """C:\program files\windows azure sdk\v1.0\bin\setenv.cmd"""
strCmd2 = "cspack AAA.XXX"
strCmd3 = "pause"

oShell.Run "%comspec% /k" & _
strCmd1 & " && " & _
"cd .. && " & _
"cd .. && " & _
"cd .. && " & _
"cd .. && " & _
strCmd2 & " && " & _
strCmd3, 1, true

Above script works fine when I do "AAA.XXX". Works either with
"AAA\BBB.XXX".
But doesn't work with "AAA BBB\CCC.XXX". i.e., when one of directoris has
space.

How do you supress the spaces in such a situation? I tried everything I can
imagine: every kind of single or double quotations.


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"Han" <hp4444@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:59D45276-1399-40F9-8B0F-651B6E7F4B36@xxxxxxYou don't want to suppress the spaces because they are there in the path to
the file in question. What you want to do is to represent them. You have
already done that for the batch file, whose location you give as:

strCmd1 = """C:\program files\windows azure sdk\v1.0\bin\setenv.cmd"""

In a quoted literal string you represent a literal double quote character by
including two double quote characters. Perhaps all you need do is to change
this:

strCmd2 = "cspack AAA.XXX"

to this:

strCmd2 = """cspack AAA.XXX"""

/Al

Thanks Al Dunbar

Exactly. Representation instead of suppress.

Anyway. Your recommandation was my first try without success.

strCmd1 = """C:\program files\windows azure sdk\v1.0\bin\setenv.cmd"""

works as expected. But,

strCmd2 = """cspack AAA BBB\CCC.XXX"""

doesn't work with error message,

"c:\Program is neither executable file nor batch file ..."

The second command with double double quotation marks definitely affects the
first commands here. I have no idea why they are related when the second has
double double quotation marks.

On the other hand, when the second has no double double quotations error
message is,

"no file named c:\BBB\CCC.XXX ..."

Which wrongly suppress the "AAA " part. I worry that can be caused from the
program "cspack.exe", which is the worst case.


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