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Help: is it possible to launch acommand prompt shell and have commands piped into it?
Hi folks,
Is anybody able to tell me if and how it is possible to have vb open a command prompt and have commands or text i specify piped into it to carry out some tasks? Help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. Clint |
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is it possible to launch acommand prompt shell and have commands piped into it?
Try this code:
Option Explicit Private Const NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS = 32 Private Type STARTUPINFO cb As Long lpReserved As String lpDesktop As String lpTitle As String dwX As Long dwY As Long dwXSize As Long dwYSize As Long dwXCountChars As Long dwYCountChars As Long dwFillAttribute As Long dwFlags As Long wShowWindow As Integer cbReserved2 As Integer lpReserved2 As Long hStdInput As Long hStdOutput As Long hStdError As Long End Type Private Type PROCESS_INFORMATION hProcess As Long hThread As Long dwProcessID As Long dwThreadId As Long End Type Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject _ Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hHandle As Long, _ ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long) As Long Private Declare Function CreateProcessA _ Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _ ByVal lpCommandLine As String, _ ByVal lpProcessAttributes As Long, _ ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Long, _ ByVal bInheritHandles As Long, _ ByVal dwCreationFlags As Long, _ ByVal lpEnvironment As Long, _ ByVal lpCurrentDirectory As String, _ lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, _ lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Long Private Declare Function GetExitCodeProcess _ Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hProcess As Long, _ lpExitCode As Long) As Long Private Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" _ (ByVal hObject As Long) As Long Function ExecCmd(sCmdLine As String, lmSecsWait As Long) As Long 'will start an external process and 'wait till this process is finished 'returns -1 if successfull and -1 if not '----------------------------------------- Dim proc As PROCESS_INFORMATION Dim Start As STARTUPINFO Dim lReturn As Long 'Initialize the STARTUPINFO structu With Start .cb = Len(Start) .dwFlags = 1 'hexadecimal would be &H1 '.wShowWindow = 0 End With 'Start the shelled application: lReturn = CreateProcessA(sCmdLine, _ vbNullString, _ 0, _ 0, _ 1, _ NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, _ 0, _ vbNullString, _ Start, _ proc) 'Wait for the shelled application to finish: '6 seconds is enough here lReturn = WaitForSingleObject(proc.hProcess, lmSecsWait) GetExitCodeProcess proc.hProcess, lReturn CloseHandle proc.hThread CloseHandle proc.hProcess ExecCmd = lReturn End Function sCmdLine can be the path of a .bat file. RBS "Clinton M James" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Is anybody able to tell me if and how it is possible to have vb open a command prompt and have commands or text i specify piped into it to carry out some tasks? Help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. Clint |
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Help: is it possible to launch acommand prompt shell and have commands piped into it?
I needed to do this recently and ended up creating a .cmd or .bat
file, which contained the actions I needed then getting excel to open and run that. Think I had about 4 scenarios (based on excel user input variations) so just wrote a .cmd for each scenario and it worked fine. It was simpler than trying to get excel to "drive" the .cmd session, though I am certain that ppl here would be able to get that to work it was beyond me! Rgds, Stuart |
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