On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:49 PM, James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/03/2008, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I > > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though > > I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all. > > > > I tried googling and looking at cygwin docs, but couldn't find > > anything. Thanks in advance for any clues. > > > > Dave > > > > I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but is there any reason > why you can't use cscript.exe or wscript.exe to run your .vbs scripts? > If they're on your PATH, it should work.
Yes, that worked splendidly. Should I have known about these executables? Are they the regular interpreters for vbscripts? I know little about cygwin and nothing about vbscript, and I did not see these mentioned in the documentation. Maybe I was too hasty, but I didn't even see "Here's how you invoke a regular windows .exe from within cygwin". I'm sorry for mystifying you - someone handed me an existing vbscript that does 90% of what I want, I just need to pipe the output into ssh to send it to another machine to be parsed and processed. I could pay a licensing fee and get a proprietary VBS component that does ssh and modify the vbscript to do just what I want, but why go to all that trouble? Thanks for big help! Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
