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Is it possible to run a VBScript in UNIX environment?

I've a Vbscript for merging excel sheet into a single workbook. I would like to know whether we could execute vbscript (.vbs) file in unix system. If yes, please help me with the procedures. Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Not sure about Unices, but on GNU/Linux it is possible to run VBScript using Wine, but VBScript support is limited.

    On Debian/Ubuntu you can install as follows:

    $ sudo apt-get install wine 
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    To run from command line:

    $ wine cscript some-script.vbs

    or 

    $ wine wscript some-script.vbs

    For example I can run following script using Wine 1.7.19 from Ubuntu Wine PPA:

    ' test.vbs

'WScript.Echo "Echo test"  ' doesn't work

'MsgBox "Message box!"     ' look like doesn't work either

' Write to file - works
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("out.txt", True)
objFile.Write "Output to file test" & vbCrLf
objFile.Close

    run:

    $ wine cscript test.vbs
fixme:vbscript:VBScript_SetScriptState unimplemented SCRIPTSTATE_INITIALIZED
fixme:scrrun:textstream_Close (0x13e208): stub
$ cat out.txt
Output to file test
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