I am trying to get the path of a file that is within a sub-directory of the current directory in VBScript. The following does not seem to work?
currentDirectory = left(WScript.ScriptFullName,(Len(WScript.ScriptFullName))-(len(WScript.ScriptName)))
FileToCopy = currentDirectory & "\test\user.js"
Here is the entire code:
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder = oFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
FileToCopy = oFSO.BuildPath(strFolder, "unproxy\user.js")
''# get AppdataPath
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshSysEnv = WshShell.Environment("PROCESS")
AppdataPath = WshSysEnv("APPDATA")
FoxProfilePath = AppdataPath & "\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\"
'"# is firefox and user.js present?
if oFSO.FolderExists(FoxProfilePath) AND oFSO.FileExists(FileToCopy) Then
''# copy user.js in all profilefolders to get around those random profile names =)
For Each ProfileFolder In oFSO.GetFolder(FoxProfilePath).Subfolders
oFSO.GetFile(FileToCopy).Copy ProfileFolder & "\" & FileToCopy, True
Next
End If
'"# clean up
Set oFSO = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set WshSysEnv = Nothing
I recommend using FileSystemObject when dealing with file paths:
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFolder = oFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
FileToCopy = oFSO.BuildPath(strFolder, "test\user.js")
Edit: The problem is in this line of your script:
oFSO.GetFile(FileToCopy).Copy ProfileFolder & "\" & FileToCopy, True
Since FileToCopy contains a full file name, when you concatenate it with ProfileFolder you get an invalid file name, like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\mlreq6kv.default\D:\unproxy\user.js
Change this line to the one below, and your script should work fine. (Note: the trailing path separator at the end of ProfileFolder is required to indicate that the profile folder, e.g. mlreq6kv.default, is indeed a folder and not a file.)
oFSO.GetFile(FileToCopy).Copy ProfileFolder & "\", True
You can get the current directory with :
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WScript.Echo WshShell.CurrentDirectory
Related
I'm looking at having a script that decompresses a file (PDMsetup.zip) and then launch the executable that it extracts.
ZipFile="PDMsetup.zip"
ExtractTo=".\"
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sourceFile = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(ZipFile)
destFolder = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(ExtractTo)
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set FilesInZip=objShell.NameSpace(sourceFile).Items()
objShell.NameSpace(destFolder).copyHere FilesInZip, 16
Set fso = Nothing
Set objShell = Nothing
Set FilesInZip = Nothing
wscript.sleep 480000
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
strPath = Wscript.ScriptFullName
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile(strPath)
strFolder = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(objFile)
strPath = strFolder & "\Startwinstall.exe"
objShell.Run strPath
I want to get rid of;
wscript.sleep 480000
and replace it with a command that tells the script wait until the extraction is done before launching startwinstall.exe
I've kept adjusting the wait time to make up for differences in PC performance with the extraction, but a command to just 'wait' until it's done would be preferential.
Delete any previous copy of the installer exe in the target folder and then wait for that file to be created. Create your objects once at the top of the script. And there's no need to set the objects to Nothing. That will happen automatically when the script ends. The edited script is below:
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oWSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set oApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
MyFolder = oFSO.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
ExtractTo = ".\"
ZipFile = "PDMsetup.zip"
StartApp = ExtractTo & "Startwinstall.exe"
On Error Resume Next
oFSO.DeleteFile StartApp
On Error Goto 0
sourceFile = oFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(ZipFile)
destFolder = oFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(ExtractTo)
Set FilesInZip = oApp.NameSpace(sourceFile).Items()
oApp.NameSpace(destFolder).copyHere FilesInZip, 16
Do Until oFSO.FileExists(StartApp)
WScript.Sleep 1000
Loop
oWSH.Run StartApp
Note: I assigned a MyFolder variable, but it's not currently being used. ExtractTo = ".\" could be changed to ExtractTo = MyFolder. You could also eliminate the GetAbsolutePathName lines if you are using MyFolder with the ZipFile name. There are always many ways to do the same thing.
Note: I think the above can be done with a much briefer (probably two line) PowerShell script. Let me know if you're interested in that solution.
This is the script I have written and I have mentioned the issue I am facing below.
Option Explicit
Dim FSO, WSH, RunDefaultProfile
Dim PF, UPF
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WSH = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
UPF = Wsh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%userprofile%")
PF = Wsh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ProgramFiles(x86)%")
RunDefaultProfile = """" & PF & "\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" & """" & _
" -CreateProfile default"
' Create the Default profile if it not exists
If NOT FSO.FolderExists (UPF & "\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\c4ssju9t.default") Then
WSH.Run RunDefaultProfile
End if
Now the challenge I am facing is, Firefox creates a random .default folder on each machine and I can't use my If NOT FSO.FolderExists condition. Also I want store the .default folder name if already exists. I will use that to run other commands and expand my script.
The path to the profile is stored in the file %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini. You can read it from the file like this:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
configdir = sh.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox")
inifile = fso.BuildPath(configDir, "profiles.ini")
If fso.FileExists(inifile) Then
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(inifile)
Do Until f.AtEndOfStream
line = f.ReadLine
If Left(line, 5) = "Path=" Then
relPath = Split(line, "=")(1)
Exit Do
End If
Loop
f.Close
End If
This will get the first profile path from the INI file (if it exists).
You can then use it like this to create a missing profile:
profileExists = False
If Not IsEmpty(relPath) Then
profile = fso.BuildPath(configdir, relPath)
profileExists = fso.FolderExists(profile)
End If
If Not profileExists Then sh.Run RunDefaultProfile
Hi I succeed changing a file name using VBS by using this code:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set oFldr = fso.getfolder("C:\v\t_TEST\")
for each ofile in oFldr.Files
if lcase(fso.GetExtensionName(ofile.Name)) = "txt" then
ofile.name = "index.txt"
Exit for
end if
Next
Now I would like to make every .txt file placed on folder "v" (subfolders) to change it name also.
Or to define a changing path ("C:\v\t_XXX), so each folder starts with t_ in this path will change inside it all files end with .txt.
How do I do that?
Thanks!
I believe this is what you are looking for....
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFldr = fso.getfolder("C:\v\")
For Each fld In ofldr.SubFolders
If Left(fld.name, 2) = "t_" Then
Set ofls = fso.GetFolder("C:\v\" & fld.name & "\")
For Each ofile In ofls.Files
If LCase(fso.GetExtensionName(ofile.Name)) = "txt" Then
ofile.name = "index.txt"
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
Next
Hello guys I have an issue or issues with my code above
I'm trying to get "sExtension" to be search in a different folder other that the one I'm using to save my script since this script will be use as a Startup Script on many computers
(It works only if I run the script in the same folder "sExtension", "ExtAssign.txt" and sComputername are otherwise it wont find the path)
This is what it should do
Read a file called "ExtAssign.txt" (There is a full list of computer names in that file) and if it find the computer name on that file then it should copy a file with the with the extension number assigned to that computer name from a file server to "C:\" Drive
For this example I'm trying to do this locally, If I can make it then I'll try it from my File Server
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
set oShellEnv = oShell.Environment("Process")
Set folder = Fso.GetFolder("C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\")
Set wshshell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set ObjEnv = WshShell.Environment("Process")
Set objFso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Scomputername = ObjEnv("COMPUTERNAME")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objWShell = wScript.createObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim strFile
'File to scan
strFile = "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\Extassign\ExtAssign.txt"
Dim strPattern
'Look for computer name in file
strPattern = scomputername
Set objFso = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
Dim strLine
'Read each line and store it in strLine
strLine = objFile.ReadLine
'If the line matches the computer name, save the line to ExtArray
If InStr(strLine,strPattern)>0 Then
Dim ExtArray
'Split the line and separate the extension
ExtArray = Split(strLine,"|", -1, 1)
Dim sExtension
'Save the extension to sExtension
sExtension=ExtArray(1)
End If
Loop
'If the sExtension is empty, computer was not found, send message and terminate script.
If sExtension="" Then
WScript.Echo "ERROR: Computer "& scomputername &" not found in Extension Assignment List, so no extension has been set. Avaya will not be launched. Please contact your IT department for assistance."
Else
'If the sExtension contains a number, Copy that file to C:\ and rename it to Config.xml
fso.CopyFile "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\ "& sExtension &"", "C:\Config.xml", True
End If
at the end it if it finds the file sExtension it will rename it to Config.xml but it wont do it unless I run the script in the same folder sExtension and sComputername.
I get File not found error
Thank you in advance and Happy new year!
The culprit is most likely this line:
fso.CopyFile "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\ "& sExtension &"", "C:\Config.xml", True
There is a trailing space after the last backslash in the path, so you're creating a path
C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\ 12345
^
when you actually want a path
C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions\12345
On a more general note: why are you creating 7(!) FileSystemObject instances (replacing one of them three times on top of that)? And 3(!) WScript.Shell instances? You don't even use most of them, not to mention that you don't need the Shell object in the first place. You only use it for determining the computer name, which could be done just fine using the WScript.Network object (that you don't use at all).
Also, please don't ever use comments like this:
'Read each line and store it in strLine
strLine = objFile.ReadLine
It's quite obvious that you read each line and assign it to the variable strLine. Comments shouldn't rephrase what you're doing (the code already does that, at least when you're using speaking variable and function names), but why you're doing it, i.e. what the purpose of a particular code section is.
Your code could be reduced to something as simple as this:
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set net = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
computername = net.ComputerName
foldername = "C:\Users\XXXXX\Desktop\Test\Extensions"
filename = fso.BuildPath(foldername, "Extassign\ExtAssign.txt")
Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename)
Do Until f.AtEndOfStream
line = f.ReadLine
If InStr(line, computername) > 0 Then
arr = Split(line, "|", -1, 1)
If UBound(arr) >= 1 Then extension = arr(1)
End If
Loop
f.Close
If IsEmpty(extension) Then
WScript.Echo "ERROR: Computer "& computername &" not found in ..."
Else
fso.CopyFile fso.BuildPath(foldername, extension), "C:\Config.xml", True
End If
I'm trying to get the current directory and use it to run an application no matter where the file is put and no matter how the path is changed
Dim fso: set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim CurrentDirectory
CurrentDirectory = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")
Dim Directory
Directory = CurrentDirectory\attribute.exe
Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "Directory" & Chr(34), 0
Set WinScriptHost = Nothing
How do I actually set up this code so it does what I want it to do correctly?
You can use WScript.ScriptFullName which will return the full path of the executing script.
You can then use string manipulation (jscript example) :
scriptdir = WScript.ScriptFullName.substring(0,WScript.ScriptFullName.lastIndexOf(WScript.ScriptName)-1)
Or get help from FileSystemObject, (vbscript example) :
scriptdir = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)
You can use CurrentDirectory property.
Dim WshShell, strCurDir
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCurDir = WshShell.CurrentDirectory
WshShell.Run strCurDir & "\attribute.exe", 0
Set WshShell = Nothing
Your problem is not getting the directory (fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".") resolves the current working directory just fine). Even if you wanted the script directory instead of the current working directory, you could easily determine that as Jakob Sternberg described in his answer.
What does not work in your code is building a path from the directory and your executable. This is invalid syntax:
Directory = CurrentDirectory\attribute.exe
If you want to build a path from a variable and a file name, the file name must be specified as a string (or a variable containing a string) and either concatenated with the variable directory variable:
Directory = CurrentDirectory & "\attribute.exe"
or (better) you construct the path using the BuildPath method:
Directory = fso.BuildPath(CurrentDirectory, "attribute.exe")
'-----Implementation of VB6 App object in VBScript-----
Class clsApplication
Property Get Path()
Dim sTmp
If IsObject(Server) Then
'Classic ASP
Path = Server.MapPath("../")
ElseIf IsObject(WScript) Then
'Windows Scripting Host
Path = Left(WScript.ScriptFullName, InStr(WScript.ScriptFullName, WScript.ScriptName) - 2)
ElseIf IsObject(window) Then
'Internet Explorer HTML Application (HTA)
sTmp = Replace( Replace(Unescape(window.location), "file:///", "") ,"/", "\")
Path = Left(sTmp, InstrRev( sTmp , "\") - 1)
End If
End Property
End Class
Dim App : Set App = New clsApplication 'use as App.Path
Your line
Directory = CurrentDirectory\attribute.exe
does not match any feature I have encountered in a vbscript instruction manual.
The following works for me, tho not sure what/where you expect "attribute.exe" to reside.
dim fso
dim curDir
dim WinScriptHost
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
curDir = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(".")
set fso = nothing
Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WinScriptHost.Run curDir & "\testme.bat", 1
set WinScriptHost = nothing
Use With in the code.
Try this way :
''''Way 1
currentdir=Left(WScript.ScriptFullName,InStrRev(WScript.ScriptFullName,"\"))
''''Way 2
With CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
CurrentPath=.CurrentDirectory
End With
''''Way 3
With WSH
CD=Replace(.ScriptFullName,.ScriptName,"")
End With
simple:
scriptdir = replace(WScript.ScriptFullName,WScript.ScriptName,"")
The 2 simplest ways:
Replace(WScript.ScriptFullName, WScript.ScriptName, "")
Left(WScript.ScriptFullName, InStrRev(WScript.ScriptFullName, "\"))
wscript.echo Mid(WScript.ScriptFullName,1,InStrRev(WScript.ScriptFullName, "\"))