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Dave Cousineau
Dave Cousineau

Reputation: 13168

Group .vbs files separately rather than all at once

I know I can split my VBScript into separate files and then include them all with one .wsf file. Something like this:

MyScript.wsf

<job id="MyJob">
   <script language="VBScript" src="File1.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File2.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File3.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File4.vbs" />
</job>

C:\> cscript MyScript.wsf

But, is there a way that I can include a .wsf file, or some other grouping of .vbs files? This way I can treat a set of files as a unit, rather than having to list all of the files out individually.

Library1.wsf

<job id="Library1">
   <script language="VBScript" src="File1.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File2.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File3.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File4.vbs" />
</job>

Library2.wsf

<job id="Library2">
   <script language="VBScript" src="File5.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File6.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File7.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File8.vbs" />
</job>

MyScript.wsf

<job id="MyJob">
   <script language="???" src="Library1.wsf" />
   <script language="???" src="Library2.wsf" />
</job>

C:\> cscript MyScript.wsf

Upvotes: 0

Views: 71

Answers (1)

Dave Cousineau
Dave Cousineau

Reputation: 13168

One way to do this that's a bit ugly but works is to concatenate partial files together using the type command. cscript.exe doesn't support piping though, so you have to use a temp file. Something like the following:

Start.txt

<job id="MyJob">

Library1.txt

   <script language="VBScript" src="File1.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File2.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File3.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File4.vbs" />

Library2.txt

   <script language="VBScript" src="File5.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File6.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File7.vbs" />
   <script language="VBScript" src="File8.vbs" />

End.txt

</job>

C:\> type Start.txt Library1.txt Library2.txt End.txt > temp.wsf & cscript temp.wsf & del temp.wsf

Or I guess you could even kind of think of it like compiling:

build.bat

@echo off
type Start.txt Library1.txt Library2.txt End.txt > MyScript.wsf

Upvotes: 1

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