vbs script to run external executable and move file
Hello,
Would you please help me?
I need batch file that will run on Windows XP PC, but not with command prompt but background.
I have no single experience on vbs but I learned from Experts log that vbs can run in background....
What I need to do....
1) check file *yyyymmdd.txt exist or not, if not, exit (yyyymmdd is today's date)
2) run external executable (written in C++) to this particular file with passing the file name as valuable.
3) check if directory called "Archive" exists or not, if not, create the directory
4) move the *yyyymmdd.txt into Archive
Would somebody help me on this?
Would you please help me?
I need batch file that will run on Windows XP PC, but not with command prompt but background.
I have no single experience on vbs but I learned from Experts log that vbs can run in background....
What I need to do....
1) check file *yyyymmdd.txt exist or not, if not, exit (yyyymmdd is today's date)
2) run external executable (written in C++) to this particular file with passing the file name as valuable.
3) check if directory called "Archive" exists or not, if not, create the directory
4) move the *yyyymmdd.txt into Archive
Would somebody help me on this?
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Hi, cj 1969,
Thank you very much, it works very well!!!!!
:-D appreciated!!!
sleepingluke
Thank you very much, it works very well!!!!!
:-D appreciated!!!
sleepingluke
cscript runs it ina command-line type window and wscript will run it in a windows environment.
BUT from your question, I get the feeling that you want cscript, you just don't want to have to run it manually, you want it to execute and stay running, without being on the desktop ... if so, then you probably want to look at running it as a service.
Check out this page ... it should have all the info you need for this ... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/