Run a vbscript from another vbscript

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How do I get a vbscript to run another vbscript   Id imagine its only a few lines of code but not tried doing this before  nothing is passed between the 2  one just needs to call run the other   For examples the script being run is called TestScript vbs  the other script for it to call run would be called Secondscript vbs  both of which are located in C  Temp   Thanks Mark

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Try this   Option Explicit  On error resume next Dim Shellobj Set Shellobj   CreateObject  WScript Shell    Shellobj Run  Test vbs    Set Shellobj   Nothing

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As Martin s Answer didn t work at all for me   File not found   and atesio s Answer does not allow to call two scripts which include repeating variable definitions  here is another alternative which finally worked for me   filepath    Chr 34   amp   C      helloworld vbs   amp  Chr 34  Set objshell  CreateObject  WScript Shell    objshell Run  wscript    amp  filepath    True Set objshell  Nothing    Windows 8 1

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You can also load the body of the script and execute it within the same process   Set fs   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   Set ts   fs OpenTextFile  script2 vbs   body   ts ReadAll ts Close Execute body

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You can try using the Wshshell Run method which gives you little control of the process you start with it  Or you could use the WshShell Exec method which will give you control to terminate it  get a response  pass more parameters  other than commandline args   get status  and others  To use Run  Simple Method   Dim ProgramPath  WshShell  ProgramArgs  WaitOnReturn intWindowStyle Set WshShell CreateObject   WScript Shell   ProgramPath  c  test run script vbs  ProgramArgs   hello  world  intWindowStyle 1 WaitOnReturn True WshShell Run Chr  34   amp  ProgramPath  amp  Chr  34   amp  Space  1   amp  ProgramArgs intWindowStyle  WaitOnReturn   ProgramPath is the full path to your script you want to run  ProgramArgs is the arguments you want to pass to the script   NOTE  the arguments are separated by a space  if you want to use an argument that contains a space then you will have to enclose that argument in quotes  Safe way to do this is use CHR  34  Example ProgramArgs  chr  34   amp    Hello World   amp  chr  34    IntWindowStyle is the integer that determines how the window will be displayed  More info on this and WaitOnReturn can be found here WshShell Run Method WaitOnReturn if true then the script will pause until the command has terminated  if false then the script will continue right after starting command   NOTE  The Run method can return the exit code but you must set WaitOnReturn to True  and assign the  WshShell Run  to a variable   EX  ExitCode WshShell Run  Command intWindowStyle True    To Use EXEC  Advanced Method   Dim ProgramPath  WshShell  ProgramArgs  Process  ScriptEngine Set WshShell CreateObject   WScript Shell   ProgramPath  c  test run script vbs  ProgramArgs   hello  world  ScriptEngine  CScript exe  Set Process WshShell Exec  ScriptEngine  amp  space  1   amp  Chr 34   amp  ProgramPath  amp  Chr  34   amp  Space  1   amp  ProgramArgs  Do While Process Status 0      Currently Waiting on the program to finish execution      WScript Sleep 300 Loop   ProgramPath same as Run READ RUN S DESCRIPTION ProgramArgs DITTO  ScriptEngine The Engine you will be using for executing the script  since the exec method requires a win32 application  you need to specify this  Usually either  WScript exe  or  CScript exe   Note that in order to use stdin and stdout  we ll cover what these are a bit further down  you must choose  CScript exe   Process this is the Object that references to the program the script will start  It has several members and they are  ExitCode  ProcessID  Status  StdErr  StdIn  StdOut  Terminate   More Details about the members of Process Object   ExitCode This is the exit code that is returned when the process terminates  ProcessID This is the ID that is assigned to the process  every process has an unique processID  Status This is a code number that indicates the status of the process  it get set to  -1  when the process terminates  StdErr This is the object that represents the Standard Error Stream StdIn This is the Object that represents the Standard Input Stream  use it to write additional parameters or anything you want to pass to the script you are calling   Process StdIn WriteLine  Hello Other Worlds   StdOut This is the Object that represents the Standard Output Stream  It is READONLY so you can use Process StdOut ReadLine  This is the stream that the called script will receive any information sent by the calling script s stdin  If you used the stdin s example then StdOut Readline will return  Hello Other Worlds   If there is nothing to read then the script will hang while waiting for an output  meaning the script will appear to be Not Responding   Note  you can use Read or ReadAll instead of ReadLine if you want  Use Read  X  if you want to read X amount of characters  Or ReadAll if you want the rest of the stream  Terminate Call this method to force terminate the process    For more information about WshShell Exec go to Exec Method Windows Scripting Host

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Just to complete  you could send 3 arguments like this   objShell Run  TestScript vbs 42   an arg containing spaces   foo

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See if the following works  Dim objShell Set objShell   Wscript CreateObject  WScript Shell    objShell Run  TestScript vbs      Using Set is mandatory Set objShell   Nothing

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In case you don t want to get mad with spaces in arguments and want to use variables try this   objshell run  cscript   99 Writelog vbs    r    amp   r  amp     f      amp  wscript scriptname  amp       c      amp  c  amp       where  r 123 c  Whatever comment you like

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I saw the below code working  Simple  but I guess not documented  Anyone else used the  Execute  command       Dim body  my script file    Set Fso   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject        Set my script file   fso OpenTextFile FILE     body   my script file ReadAll     my script file Close      Execute body

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