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Any additional feedback? Note Call has no effect at the command prompt when it is used outside of a script or batch file. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. A batch file can call a VBScript script by invoking it using the cscript.
If possible I would like to embed the code in the. Not have a. Similar to this. As Oberwald said, there's probably not anybody in this forum that is going to undertake this task for you.
The usual technique is to use "echo" to output a temporary VBScript script file. This can be tricky for larger VBScript scripts because there are various characters that have special meaning to shell scripting batch and must be escaped. The technique you posted use ":" to mark the VBScript code, find it in the original shell script, and then output it to a file relies on the fact that the VBScript interpreter ignores the leading ":" character on each line.
I don't know the exact reason for this behavior, and I'm not really motivated enough to find it out, but I suspect this quirk is related to backward compatibility. You're free to use this technique if you want, but I don't recommend it as it's non-standard syntax.
In addition, my earlier caveat still applies. If you need to "embed" this VBScript in a batch file for the purpose of sending a password to the RunAs program, then everyone will tell you that you should not be doing that as it is it a security risk.
Thank you very much for taking time out of your day to assist me with this. If I might impose on you one more time would it be worth investing more time into vbscript for my desires? I want to be able to edit registry files, I want to be able to call admin related commands services.
Or would it be best to invest more time into something like power shell? We have no programmers here so any advice I get is off the internet. Any advice you are willing to share with me will be greatly appericated. You don't have to log out and back in to perform administrative functions. Simply right-click on the Cmd. None of this requires any scripting. I would definitely recommend powershell if that is feasible in your environment, and for a variety of reasons.
It can basically do whatever you can do in batch, it can basically do whatever you can do in vbscript, and it can basically do whatever you can do in a combination of batch and vbscript. And, in all cases it can do those things more simply. I have seen a number of situations where a person managed to embed a chunk of scripting code of language A into a script written in language B to make the application somewhat portable - much like you were originally trying to do.
The host script in language B then creates a temporary file to contain the script code written in language A and then invokes it. I have seen this done with various combinations of languages including vbscript, batch, and assembler using a variety of tricks just to get it to work. Try writing a batch file that uses echo statements to create another batch file that uses redirection, and you will get an idea But even though powershell can do most everything you need, its syntax is flexible enough to make it easier for a powershell script to contain vbscript or batch script code to be written to a temp file as needed.
Not everyone this day and age likes the command line. I would just like to build a small tool that made their life a little easier and to know I didn't have to worry about someone remembering dos commands. I would say that to perform administrative functions, an operator of a system should know some fundamentals about how to correctly perform those functions. Embedding an administrative password in clear-text in a script file is a bad idea for a long list of reasons you should already know.
Yes, thats why the password was stored in a vbe format, not just a simple vbs. A windows batch file called. I'm quite in trouble to differentiate their intended usage based on their help text: when to use which one? What's different? I'm interested on some summary report that analyze all 4 possibilities and others if any missing from various point of views: recommended use cases for which they are designed to fit, process spawning, execution context, environment, return code processing.
The batch file will be executed by the current cmd. In a batch file, without 'call', the parent batch file ends and control passes to the called batch file; with 'call' runs the child batch file, and the parent batch file continues with statements following call.
Start will run the batch file in a new cmd. One thing not clear from the comments here: When you call one batch file from another by using just its name Case 1 in the original question , execution stops from the calling batch file. For example, in these lines:. The 'echo Hello' line and anything following it will not be called. If you use the 'call' keyword, execution resumes after the call. So in this case:. Additionally, all the variables set in the called.
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