Command Line Arguments Not Going Through w/ WScript.Shell?

[frankfisher]

Hi,

Well, I'm new to VBScript, and am having a perplexing problem.

Here is a snippet:

    CmdLine = "cacls " & ThisFolder & "*.* > "& ThisFolder & "acls.txt" 
    Cmd.Run CmdLine

ThisFolder is the directory for which we need to record ACLs. Anyhow, though it only flashes by in a console, it looks like cacls behaves as if it had no arguments passed to it. I've MsgBox'd the CmdLine string and it looks fine to me.

What am I doing wrong?

Any advice, even offensive, would be helpful.

Thanks,
Frank

'Virtual means never knowing where your next byte is coming from'

 

[frankfisher]

I didn't mention it, but it may be useful to know that Cmd in the snippet was initialized thusly:

    Set Cmd = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Frank

"Who's General Failure, and why is he reading my hard-drive?"

 

[PHV]

Try this:

Cmd.Run "%COMSPEC% /c " & CmdLine

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[frankfisher]

Wow, that did it. Thanks!

-Frank