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Some Shell commands don't work

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Teun van de Merw #1 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work There are several commands which not work if you put them in a VBScript. Such as sort don't work and why is that am I doing something wrong.
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:16:05 GMT

Torgeir Bakke #2 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work Hi Sort.exe works from .Run Could you post your code (and the path\file names you use)? It is much easier to help then. Regards, Torgeir Quote: > There are several commands which not work if you put them in a vbScript. > Such as sort don't work and why is that am I doing something wrong.
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:12:31 GMT

bronk #3 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work I have found that adding cmd.exe in from of the command you want to execute will help in these situations. For example: Shell.Run("cmd.exe /c notepad") A few more details - The /c switch will execute the argument, and close the window - The /k switch will execute the argument, and keep the window open. (I often use this to help debug shell.run problems - You really should use %comspec% instead of cmd.exe, in case someone is using a non-default command interpreter. Hope this helps. Quote: > Hi > Sort.exe works from .Run > Could you post your code (and the path\file names you use)? It is much easier to > help then. > Regards, > Torgeir > > There are several commands which not work if you put them in a vbScript. > > Such as sort don't work and why is that am I doing something wrong.
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:27:50 GMT

Teun van de Merw #4 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work This is the code that I used: Dim objShell Set objShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objShell.Run "sort <c:\schijven.txt> c:\vijg.txt" Set objShell = Nothing Thank you for your support. Teun. Quote: > Hi > Sort.exe works from .Run > Could you post your code (and the path\file names you use)? It is much easier to > help then. > Regards, > Torgeir > > There are several commands which not work if you put them in a vbScript. > > Such as sort don't work and why is that am I doing something wrong.
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:34:25 GMT

Torgeir Bakke #5 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work Hi You must use "cmd.exe /c" (wnt\w2k) or "command.com /c" (w9x) in friont of DOS commands. The best thing is to use %comspec% to obtain OS version independency. You also should use ", 1, True" or ", 0, True" behind the run statement, or else your script will not wait for yor command to be finished before continuing! Description on 0\1 on the line above: 1 will give you a flashing DOS box as the DOS command is run, 0 will make it invisible. This should work for you: Dim objShell Set objShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") objShell.Run "%comspec% /c sort <c:\schijven.txt> c:\vijg.txt", 0, True Set objShell = Nothing Regards, Torgeir Quote: > This is the code that I used: > Dim objShell > Set objShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") > objShell.Run "sort <c:\schijven.txt> c:\vijg.txt" > Set objShell = Nothing > Thank you for your support. > Teun. > > Hi > > Sort.exe works from .Run > > Could you post your code (and the path\file names you use)? It is much > easier to > > help then. > > Regards, > > Torgeir > > > There are several commands which not work if you put them in a vbScript. > > > Such as sort don't work and why is that am I doing something wrong.
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:07:19 GMT

A l e x A n g e l o p o u l o #6 / 6	Some Shell commands don't work (snip) Quote: > Dim objShell > Set objShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") > objShell.Run "%comspec% /c [CMD LINE HERE]", 0, True > Set objShell = Nothing (snip) Nice generic run-and-continue CMD wrapper - thanks, Torgeir.
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:32:46 GMT

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