How to execute a .bat program ???

[Seb104]

I'm new to this programing world, so please use an understandable language

I need to execute remotely (from any browser) some .bat files located on an IIS web server. Let say for example c:\test.bat. I try to use asp and VBscripts for that.

What script can be used to execute this program?

 

[jonscott8]

You can get more detailed explanations and examples in the ASP forum.

But in theory, just set up an ASP page including

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell&quot
nReturn = oShell.Run("C:\test.bat",0,True)

or

nReturn = oShell.Run("%COMSPEC% /C C:\test.bat",0,True)

Obviously there are going to be permissions you'll need to consider. Jon Hawkins

 

[sam]

In this case, nReturn is the returned error code.

What if you wanted to get back the StdOut of test.bat?

I have a test.bat which generates some output on the command line, and I need to get at this output.

 

[jonscott8]

That depends on what's hosting your script.

Within ASP, you've got at least two options, depending on test.bat. You can either 1) attempt to send the output to a text file and then read in that text file.

nReturn = oShell.Run("%COMSPEC% /C C:\test.bat >C:\test.txt",0,True)

or 2) setup a .VBS script that you execute with WSH, which does provide access to the StdIn, StdOut, & StdErr streams. Your .VBS would then write the StdOut stream to a text file which would be picked up by your ASP. Search this form for StdIn or StdOut - there are some examples.
Jon Hawkins