Cscript copy file

Dim fso, f, f1, fc, strComments, strScanDir. I keep getting a permission denied error. Some way to pass credentials through a VBscript. Enhance your Brain. Video Walkthrough: Try using the code in order to make sure you understand. This method allows us to copy one or more files from one location the source to another destination.

Wildcards can be used within the source string, providing it is the last component in the path, to enable the copying of multiple files, but cannot be used in the destination string.

The only thing that I would need, is a dialog bog that open when you start the script. A dialog box that ask me where is the txt file, what is the sorce folder and what is the destination folder.

Once it's done, clic process and then it does it's thing. Is it complicated to do? Saturday, April 25, PM. Awesome I got it to work. That's cool. And I agree with Seby20 but I can do without it. Thank You so much. Sunday, April 26, AM. Browsing for folders is possible but the problem is that there's no native way of browsing for files in vbscript.

There were a number of ways to do it in XP but as far as I know, none of them work in Vista unless you rely on third party components. Sunday, April 26, PM. Ok, well, Could you do it like this If my txt file is alway at the same place, it's not a problem, I just overwrite it every time. But as for files to be copied, it change all the times. So Can it open a dialog box to tell that look in this folder, all the files are there.

And then start the program copy alone after i've selected the folder? The destination folder could ask to where I wanna copy those file. How about this then? I added browse dialogs for the folder selections and I rebuilt the output method so that only a summary is shown at the end if it is run using wscript double click. If it is run under cscript it will echo a summary at the end as well as results for each file as they are being copied.

I hope it will suit your needs. Option Explicit ' The list of files to copy. Path ' Get the target path for the copy operation. It worked!!!!!! Thanks very much my friend!!! Last question.. Same thing for the output. Again thank you very much sir. Monday, April 27, AM. A very big help thanks! Tuesday, April 28, PM. Hi, Thanks for your script. It has really helped newbies to scripting like us. My challenge is that I want to modify the script to only copy files with names "similar" and not "exactly the same" as the filenames in the text file.

For example if the script sees a file name like 'WXXXKI', it should search the source location and copy the files having filenames with at least this characters e. Please help. Wednesday, May 13, PM. Proposed as answer by sansouchi Thursday, May 14, PM.

Thanks for your response. I do not really need very accurate output, anything similar to what is in the fillist would do. Also it is not important to know the number of files copied.

View all page feedback. In this article. Specifies interactive mode, which displays alerts, scripting errors, and input prompts. Specifies that the Windows Script Host banner is displayed in the console before the script runs. Specifies the maximum time the script can run in seconds. You can specify up to 32, seconds.

The default is no time limit.