vbs how to execute a command with quoted parameters

Hi,

OS: Win7 64bits Family

Can't find the way to fix quoting issue.

Suppose in the command prompt this works:

"c:\what ever\my program.exe" "d:\some dir\my file.txt" cat 1-2 output "d\some dir\_out.txt"

How do I make this into some vbs scripting?

I tried this:

Code:

exePath= "c:\what ever\my program.exe"
spath= "d:\some dir\"
iFile = spath & "my file.txt"
oFile= spath & "_out.txt"
iNumber=2

cli = Chr(34) & exePath & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & sFileSelected  & Chr(34) & " cat 1-"& iNumber & " output  "  & Chr(34) & oFile & Chr(34)
Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
Cmd=Chr(39) & cli & Chr(39) 
objShell.Run(Cmd)
Set objShell = Nothing

I get:
error 80070002 “The system cannot find the file specified”

Thanks

From a quick read, there is no variable named sFileSelected (as it's used in the concatenation).
Instead, it should be created from concatenating spath and iFile, declared earlier.

Alejandro85 said:

[sFileSelected] should be created from concatenating spath and iFile

And preferable using the 'BuildPath' method of the 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' com object.

The value of cli after line 7 is,

Code:

"c:\what ever\my program.exe" "" cat 1-2 output  "d:\some dir\_out.txt"

The second set of double quotes is missing its content. Consider replacing sFileSelected with 'spath & iFile', or define the variable sFileSelected as such before you reference it, Live.

Oups, I wanted to make it simpler than actually (opens a file selection window)

The line being, but doesn't change anything to the issue:

Code:

cli = Chr(34) & exePath & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & iFile & Chr(34) & " cat 1-"& iNumber & " output  "  & Chr(34) & oFile & Chr(34)

I'm failing to make sense of your problem. What exactly are you trying to do?

Code:

What exactly are you trying to do?

Execute some command line tools having quoted parameters from a vbs script (bat file).

the error was:
Cmd=Chr(39) & cli & Chr(39)

Doesn't need to be quoted