Chapter 40: Automating Tasks with the Windows Script Host

Configuring the Cscript Program

You can use two kinds of command-line options with Cscript:

• Host options Options that control WSH features. These options always start with two slashes (//).
• Script options Information that is passed to the script itself. These options always start with one slash (/).

The command-line options you can use with Cscript are listed in Table 40-1.

Option Description //? Displays information about the Cscript command. //B Runs the script in batch mode, so that all user prompts and script errors are suppressed. This is the opposite of the //I option. //H:name Registers the program name (which must be either Cscript or Wscript) as the application for running this type of script. The default program for running scripts is Wscript. //I Runs the script in interactive mode, displaying all user prompts and script errors. (This is the default setting.) This is the opposite of the //B option. //logo Displays a banner when the script starts. (This is the default setting.) This is the opposite of the //nologo option. //nologo Does not display the WSH banner. This is the opposite of the //logo setting. //S Saves the command-line options you use this time so that they become the default. //T:nn Specifies the maximum number of seconds that the script can run before Cscript cancels the script.

Table 1: Cscript Command-Line Options