vbscript output to console

Question

What is the command or the quickest way to output results to console using vbscript

User · Accepted Answer

You mean   Wscript Echo  Like this     If you run that under wscript exe  the default handler for the  vbs extension  so what you ll get if you double-click the script  you ll get a  MessageBox  dialog with your text in it  If you run that under cscript exe you ll get output in your console window

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Create a  vbs with the following code  which will open your main  vbs  Set objShell   WScript CreateObject  quot WScript shell quot    objShell Run  quot cscript exe  quot  quot C  QuickTestb vbs quot  quot  quot   Here is my main  vbs Option Explicit Dim i for i   1 To 5      Wscript Echo i      Wscript Sleep 5000 Next

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There are five ways to output text to the console    Dim StdOut   Set StdOut   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   GetStandardStream 1   WScript Echo  Hello  WScript StdOut Write  Hello  WScript StdOut WriteLine  Hello  Stdout WriteLine  Hello  Stdout Write  Hello    WScript Echo will output to console but only if the script is started using cscript exe  It will output to message boxes if started using wscript exe   WScript StdOut Write and WScript StdOut WriteLine will always output to console   StdOut Write and StdOut WriteLine will also always output to console  It requires extra object creation but it is about 10  faster than WScript Echo

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I came across this post and went back to an approach that I used some time ago which is similar to  MadAntrax s    The main difference is that it uses a VBScript user-defined class to wrap all the logic for switching to CScript and outputting text to the console  so it makes the main script a bit cleaner   This assumes that your objective is to stream output to the console  rather than having output go to message boxes    The cCONSOLE class is below  To use it  include the complete class at the end of your script  and then instantiate it right at the beginning of the script  Here is an example       Option Explicit      Instantiate the console object  this automatically switches to CSCript if required Dim CONS  Set CONS   New cCONSOLE      Now we can use the Consol object to write to and read from the console With CONS          Simply write a line       print  CSCRIPT Console demo script            Arguments are passed through correctly  if present       Print  Arg count    amp  wscript arguments count           List all the arguments on the console log      dim ix      for ix   0 to wscript arguments count -1          print  Arg    amp  ix  amp        amp  wscript arguments ix       next           Prompt for some text from the user      dim sMsg   sMsg    prompt   Enter any text               Write out the text in a box       Box sMsg           Pause with the message  Hit enter to continue        Pause  End With                         End of script - the cCONSOLE class code follows here   Here is the code for the cCONSOLE class       CLASS cCONSOLE                                                                                   This class provides automatic switch to CScript and has methods        to write to and read from the CSCript console  It transparently        switches to CScript if the script has been started in WScript                                                                                 Private oOUT     Private oIN       Private Sub Class Initialize          Run on creation of the cCONSOLE object  checks for cScript operation              Check to make sure we are running under CScript  if not restart            then run using CScript and terminate this instance          dim oShell         set oShell   CreateObject  WScript Shell            If InStr  LCase  WScript FullName     cscript exe      0 Then                Not running under CSCRIPT                 Get the arguments on the command line and build an argument list             dim ArgList  IX             ArgList                   For IX   0 to wscript arguments count - 1                    Add the argument to the list  enclosing it in quotes                 argList   argList  amp         amp  wscript arguments item IX   amp                   next                 Now restart with CScript and terminate this instance             oShell Run  cscript exe   NoLogo      amp  WScript ScriptName  amp         amp  arglist             WScript Quit          End If             Running under CScript so OK to continue         set oShell   Nothing             Save references to stdout and stdin for use with Print  Read and Prompt         set oOUT   WScript StdOut         set oIN   WScript StdIn             Print out the startup box              StartBox             BoxLine Wscript ScriptName             BoxLine  Started at    amp  Now               EndBox       End Sub         Utility methods for writing a box to the console with text in it              Public Sub StartBox                    Print       amp  String 73                        Print       amp  Space 73   amp                  End Sub              Public Sub BoxLine sText                   Print Left       amp  Centre  sText  74    75   amp                  End Sub              Public Sub EndBox                   Print       amp  String 73        amp                      Print                End Sub              Public Sub Box sMsg                  StartBox                 BoxLine sMsg                 EndBox             End Sub         END OF Box utility methods                  Utility to center given text padded out to a certain width of text                assuming font is monospaced             Public Function Centre sText  nWidth                  dim iLen                 iLen   len sText                      Check for overflow                 if ilen  gt  nwidth then Centre   sText   exit Function                     Calculate padding either side                 iLen     nWidth - iLen     2                     Generate text with padding                 Centre   left  space iLen   amp  sText  amp  space ilen   nWidth               End Function           Method to write a line of text to the console     Public Sub Print  sText            oOUT WriteLine sText     End Sub         Method to prompt user input from the console with a message     Public Function Prompt  sText           oOUT Write sText         Prompt   Read       End Function         Method to read input from the console with no prompting     Public Function Read           Read   oIN ReadLine     End Function         Method to provide wait for n seconds     Public Sub Wait nSeconds          WScript Sleep  nSeconds   1000      End Sub         Method to pause for user to continue     Public Sub Pause         Prompt  Hit enter to continue         End Sub    END CLASS

User · Answer

You only need to force cscript instead wscript  I always use this template  The function ForceConsole   will execute your vbs into cscript  also you have nice alias to print and scan text    Set oWSH   CreateObject  WScript Shell    vbsInterpreter    cscript exe    Call ForceConsole     Function printf txt      WScript StdOut WriteLine txt  End Function   Function printl txt      WScript StdOut Write txt  End Function   Function scanf       scanf   LCase WScript StdIn ReadLine   End Function   Function wait n      WScript Sleep Int n   1000   End Function   Function ForceConsole       If InStr LCase WScript FullName   vbsInterpreter    0 Then         oWSH Run vbsInterpreter  amp      NoLogo    amp  Chr 34   amp  WScript ScriptFullName  amp  Chr 34          WScript Quit     End If  End Function   Function cls       For i   1 To 50         printf        Next  End Function   printf                                                                     printf                                                                     printf                          --                                         printf                                                                     printf                                                                 v1 0   printl   Enter your name    MyVar   scanf  cls  printf  Your name is     amp  MyVar  wait 5

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This was found on Dragon-IT Scripts and Code Repository   You can do this with the following and stay away from the cscript wscript differences and allows you to get the same console output that a batch file would have   This can help if your calling VBS from a batch file and need to make it look seamless   Set fso   CreateObject   Scripting FileSystemObject   Set stdout   fso GetStandardStream  1  Set stderr   fso GetStandardStream  2  stdout WriteLine  This will go to standard output   stderr WriteLine  This will go to error output

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