[Listening to: Hey Hey What Can I Do / Hootie - Encomium - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin (03:25)]
... that can make the biggest difference.
Ever since I started working with console-based WSH scripts, I found the tendency to break input pipes if not launching explicitly with cscript to be a source of frustration and actual damage.
A few weeks ago, I started using "shadow scripts": I would generate a CMD or BAT file with the same base name as a WSF, in the same folder, and give it the one line:
@cscript "%~dpn0.wsf" %*
Although it was a little annoying to do at first, I found that I was suddenly writing more and more console scripts due to how simple use was. It makes calling and piping ten times easier.
Posted
Oct 12 2003, 08:26 AM
by
alexk