Can I pick up environment variables in vbscript WSH script? - vbscript

Question

Is is possible to read system environment variables in a Windows Scripting Host (WSH) VBS script?
(I am writing a VBScript using Windows Scripting Host for task for a Cruise Control and want to pick up the project build URL.)

Answer 1

Here's an example (taken from here):
Set oShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
user=oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserName%")
comp=oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%ComputerName%")
WScript.Echo user & " " & comp

Answer 2

The existing answers are all helpful, but let me attempt a pragmatic summary:
Typically, you want the current process's definition of an environment variable:
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%")
This is the equivalent of (note the absence of % around the variable name):
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Environment("Process").Item("TEMP")
Caveat: Do not omit the ("Process) part: if you do, you'll get the system scope's definition of the variable; see below.
.ExpandEnvironmentStrings is conceptually simpler and more flexible: It can expand arbitrary strings with embedded (%-enclosed) environment-variable references; e.g.:
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").ExpandEnvironmentStrings("My name is %USERNAME%")
On rare occasions you may have to access environment-variable definitions from a specific scope (other than the current process's).
sScope = "System" ' May be: "Process", "User", "Volatile", "System"
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Environment(sScope).Item("TEMP")
Note: As stated above, omitting the scope argument defaults to the System scope.
Caveat: Accessing a value this way does not expand it: Environment-variable values can be nested: they can refer to other environment variables.
In the example above, the return value is %SystemRoot%\TEMP, which contains the unexpanded reference to %SystemRoot%.
To expand the result, pass it to .ExpandEnvironmentStrings(), as demonstrated above.

Answer 3

From here ...
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshProccessEnv = WshShell.Environment("Process")
Set WshSysEnv = WshShell.Environment("System")
Wscript.Echo WshSysEnv("NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS")
Wscript.Echo WshProccessEnv("Path")
Also, much more detail on TechNet.

Answer 4

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshEnv = WshShell.Environment
WScript.Echo "WINDIR=" & WshEnv.Item("WINDIR") & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WScript.Echo "Environment System:" & vbCrLf & _
"..............................................."
For Each IEnv In WshShell.Environment("System")
WScript.Echo IEnv
Next
WScript.Echo vbCrLf & "Environment User:" & vbCrLf & _
"..............................................."
For Each IEnv In WshShell.Environment("User")
WScript.Echo IEnv
Next
WScript.Echo vbCrLf & "Environment Volatile:" & vbCrLf & _
"..............................................."
For Each IEnv In WshShell.Environment("Volatile")
WScript.Echo IEnv
Next
WScript.Echo vbCrLf & "Environment Process:" & vbCrLf & _
"..............................................."
For Each IEnv In WshShell.Environment("Process")
WScript.Echo IEnv
Next

Answer 5

This works for me:
Dim objNetwork
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
MsgBox objNetwork.UserName
or from the shell:
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
strUserName = wshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings( "%USERNAME%" )
or from environment variable (it should work, but when i tested it was wrong!):
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set WshEnv = WshShell.Environment
MsgBox "USERNAME=" & WshEnv.Item("USERNAME")