Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/03/19/18:19:15
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:49 PM, James Abley <james DOT abley AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> On 19/03/2008, Dave Burns <tburns AT hawaii DOT edu> wrote:
> > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I
> > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though
> > I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all.
> >
> > I tried googling and looking at cygwin docs, but couldn't find
> > anything. Thanks in advance for any clues.
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
> I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but is there any reason
> why you can't use cscript.exe or wscript.exe to run your .vbs scripts?
> If they're on your PATH, it should work.
Yes, that worked splendidly. Should I have known about these
executables? Are they the regular interpreters for vbscripts? I know
little about cygwin and nothing about vbscript, and I did not see
these mentioned in the documentation. Maybe I was too hasty, but I
didn't even see "Here's how you invoke a regular windows .exe from
within cygwin". I'm sorry for mystifying you - someone handed me an
existing vbscript that does 90% of what I want, I just need to pipe
the output into ssh to send it to another machine to be parsed and
processed. I could pay a licensing fee and get a proprietary VBS
component that does ssh and modify the vbscript to do just what I
want, but why go to all that trouble?
Thanks for big help!
Dave
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