Run VBScript code in a Batch file

Question

Say I have a batch script and I would like to use VBScript to perform a certain task. It is a one liner in VBScript, and I would prefer to only have one file (which is the batch script) without any temporary files. Is this possible?

I know how to create a VBScript file from a batch script, run it and then delete it, but I don't want to do that because that involves creating an extra file.

Answer 1

Here are two ways - you can check for more here. The best way according to me (save whole code bellow as a .bat):

<!-- :
@echo off
echo "Batch code here"
cscript //nologo "%~f0?.wsf" %*
exit /b
-->
<job><script language="VBScript">
  WScript.Echo "VBScript output called by batch"
  'Uncoment if you want to test the command line arguments
  'WScript.Echo (WScript.Arguments.Item(0))
</script></job>

You can also use mshta (mind that this the browser based vbscript and you have no access to the WScript object):

@echo off
setlocal
:: Define simple batch "macros" to implement VBS within batch
set "vbsBegin=mshta vbscript:Execute("createobject(""scripting.filesystemobject"")"
set "vbsBegin=%vbsBegin%.GetStandardStream(1).write("
set ^"vbsEnd=):close"^)"

:: float numbers math
%vbsBegin% 2.5+3.1 %vbsEnd% |more

for /f %%a in ('%vbsBegin% 2.5+3.1 %vbsEnd%') do set result=%%a
echo %result%