Redirect Command line utility output to variable? 1

[markdmac]

I have written a script that executes the Microsoft Repadmin command to force AD replication. I need to grab the results from it so I can use an InStr to determine if it ran successfully or not.

Can anyone help me? For simplicity sake of an example how about we use this code

WSHShell = Createobject("Wscript.Shell")
Call WSHShell.Run("CMD.EXE /C DIR C:")

How can I get what would be displayed as the Dir results to be an array that I could loop through? I think I want to use stdIN but am not sure how to do it.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[PHV]

Set oShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set oExec = oShell.Exec("CMD.EXE /C DIR C:")
Do While oExec.Status = 0
WScript.Sleep 100
Loop
myArray = Split(oExec.StdOut.ReadAll, vbCrLf)

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[markdmac]

Exactly what I needed. Many thanks PHV.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark