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I am trying to learn microsoft scripting, and I'm trying to find a reference that lists the commands and a brief description of what the commands do.
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Yes, I’m referring vbs/wsh. A good example of what I’m looking for is Wscript.Echo. Somewhere, there has to be something that has a list of what Wscript.Echo does. I referred to commands, maybe in scripting Wscript.Echo
Isn’t called a command, but it has a function like a command, it echoes what is in the quotes. Some more examples, OpenDSObject, set, dim. They all do something. I have been told that you just have to try stuff to find what they do, but you can’t just throw a bunch of words into a blank notepad file, and slap a .vbs extension on it and expect it to do something. Syntax is king, you have to know that it’s Wscript.Echo, and not WscriptEcho. So I’m looking for a reference that lists things like Wscript.Echo and what it does.
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Sorry about the slow response. Sirbounty, you said that it’s about practice, but I don’t see how you can practice without having the syntax and so called commands.  It’s like practicing the piano on a piano without a keyboard. How can you know what the different keys do and sound like? Anyhow, from asking around, and seeing all the responses, apparently there just isn’t a resource for what I’m looking for. Thanks to everyone for trying.  
Because there is so much that it CAN do, it's hard to just learn things.  It's more about thinking about what it IS that you want to accomplish, then researching, through examples, on how that it is done.  The Microsoft "Hey, Scripting Guy" articles are a good resource for example.

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Rob.