How do I capture execution path? 2

[withanh]

I want to be able to capture the path my script is being called from. In VB6 I used app.path but that doesn't work in VBS.

Thanks!

 

[markdmac]

WScript.Path

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[PHV]

Have a look at the WScript.ScriptFullName property.

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[withanh]

Mark & PH,

Thank you both for replying.

Mark, your solution returned "C:\Windows\System32" which is the path to the cscript.exe/wscript.exe not quite what I wanted, hope you didn't misunderstand my question.

PH, that is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much!

h

 

[withanh]

Whoops, I take that back PH, yours gives the name of the .vbs file, I just want the path it's residing in...I guess I can parse it out but I was hoping to be able to easily capture it.

h

 

[withanh]

OK, you both get stars for making me think. I'm already using FSO for writing out to a log file that I keep in the same place as the script so I thought "Hmmm, there's gotta be something there!", here's what I did to capture the path:

Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strFileName, ForWriting, False)
strPath = objFSO.GetFile(strFileName)

 

[markdmac]

Sorry, the Wscript.Path returns the engine path not the script path. As PHV suggested use WSCRIPT.SCRIPTFULLNAME

Path =Left(WScript.ScriptFullName,(Len(WScript.ScriptFullName)-Len(Wscript.ScriptName)))

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Regards,

Mark

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