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Relative Path - 2/18/2005 1:47:12 AM

Bushmen

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Hi,

Does anyone know how what to use for relative paths in vbs.

in vb, ".\" always points to the relative path of anything, i.e. a file

how about vbs?

for instance: say i am running a file.vbs in

MainFolder
SubFolder1 - file.vbs
SubFolder2 - kill.exe

say i want to call kill.exe within file.vbs, but i don't know where the actual
MainFolder is located.. could be on a network, or locally.

i want to be able to work out where is subfolder1 (maybe getparent??)
then get subfolder2 and call kill.exe..

regards,

ben

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Re: Relative Path - 2/18/2005 2:23:19 AM

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Just put the name of the file ... this shoud get you the file in the same folder that the script is in ... as far as get parent ... dont know if that is possible with vbscript

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Re: Relative Path - 2/18/2005 4:00:25 AM

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If you know that kill.exe is stored on the same level as file.vbs in the filesystem hierarchy, it works the same as any PC environment.

shell.run "%COMSPEC% /C ..\SubFolder2\kill.exe"

Was that really what you asked though ?

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Re: Relative Path - 2/18/2005 5:11:53 AM

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You can use WScript.ScriptFullName to get the path and name of the script. With that you can then use get the parent folder of the script.

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Re: Relative Path - 2/20/2005 6:06:09 AM

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hmm

"WScript.ScriptFullName"..

is that the full path for the current script that is busy executing?

If so, then I see what you mean regarding using that, going one "\" back and then calling kill.exe in subfolder2 as per token's post.

Ok, say that is the case, am i right in saying the "InstrRev" function could be used to
manipulate the Wscript.ScriptFullName "path"??

Regards,
Bushmen

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Re: Relative Path - 2/20/2005 7:49:46 AM

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You could just use the following,

WScript.Echo fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName) to get the parent folder to which the script resides. To do exactly what you want, you could use the following,

WScript.Echo fso.BuildPath(fso.GetParentFolderName(fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)), "subfolder2\kill.exe")

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Re: Relative Path - 2/21/2005 5:08:52 AM

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I often use this to get the path to the folder of the current file:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFilePath = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(".")

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Re: Relative Path - 2/21/2005 5:47:43 AM

Bushmen

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thanks for your input everyone..

I've used a mixture of Token's and Netmacro's code.

This now works perfectly..

Relative Path wise, this from Netmacro was what i was looking for:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
strFilePath = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(".")

Then, to get the rest, Token's code came in handy..

Geez.. only been posting a few weeks, and already I can feel my scripting is coming along nicely..

Regards,
Bushmen

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