Re: Writing to a text file

Also, you can probably run your existing script at a command prompt with the
cscript host and redirect the output to a text file. For example, if the
VBScript program is in a file called ChangePW.vbs, the following command
will create the text file report.text:

cscript //nologo ChangePW.vbs > report.txt

the "//nologo" parameter suppresses WSH logo info. The above assumes you are
in the directory where the VBScript file is saved. Otherwise you must
specify the full path. The text file is created in the current directory,
unless you specify a path.

--
Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The line

wscript.echo objExec.StdOut.Readline

writes a line of text to the screen. As I said before, you
must replace it with a statement that writes your data to
a file. The link I gave you has numerous examples for
doing this, as has the downloadable help file script56.chm.


"Joe H" <JoeH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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what is the line statement to replace "wscript.echo",to make the script
to
write to file
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Joe H


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Joe H" <JoeH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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With help from the MVP in this forum, I have a script that resets the
local
admin passwords in different OU in my network.

I have figure out a way to make the script print the computer name on
the
screen. This works great. Now I want to get fancier and want to print
what
I
get on the screen to a text file.

How do I make a script save to a text file in the c drive on my
server?

Thanks,

--
Joe H

Have a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/sept04/hey0914.mspx

The article suggests you use code like this to pick up screen output:
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec _
("%comspec% /c ping -n 3 -w 1000 192.168.1.1")
Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
wscript.echo objExecObject.StdOut.ReadAll()
Loop

Instead of using "wscript.echo", write your lines to a text file.
You might also want to download the whole Scripting Guy file -
there is a wealth of information in there!







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