vbscript output to console

You mean:

Wscript.Echo "Like this?"

If you run that under wscript.exe (the default handler for the .vbs extension, so what you'll get if you double-click the script) you'll get a "MessageBox" dialog with your text in it. If you run that under cscript.exe you'll get output in your console window.

This was found on Dragon-IT Scripts and Code Repository.

You can do this with the following and stay away from the cscript/wscript differences and allows you to get the same console output that a batch file would have. This can help if your calling VBS from a batch file and need to make it look seamless.

Set fso = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")Set stdout = fso.GetStandardStream (1)Set stderr = fso.GetStandardStream (2)stdout.WriteLine "This will go to standard output."stderr.WriteLine "This will go to error output."

You only need to force cscript instead wscript. I always use this template. The function ForceConsole() will execute your vbs into cscript, also you have nice alias to print and scan text.

 Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") vbsInterpreter = "cscript.exe" Call ForceConsole() Function printf(txt)    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine txt End Function Function printl(txt)    WScript.StdOut.Write txt End Function Function scanf()    scanf = LCase(WScript.StdIn.ReadLine) End Function Function wait(n)    WScript.Sleep Int(n * 1000) End Function Function ForceConsole()    If InStr(LCase(WScript.FullName), vbsInterpreter) = 0 Then        oWSH.Run vbsInterpreter & " //NoLogo " & Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34)        WScript.Quit    End If End Function Function cls()    For i = 1 To 50        printf ""    Next End Function printf " _____ _ _           _____         _    _____         _     _   " printf "|  _  |_| |_ ___ ___|     |_ _ _ _| |  |   __|___ ___|_|___| |_ " printf "|     | | '_| . |   |   --| | | | . |  |__   |  _|  _| | . |  _|" printf "|__|__|_|_,_|___|_|_|_____|_____|___|  |_____|___|_| |_|  _|_|  " printf "                                                       |_|     v1.0" printl " Enter your name:" MyVar = scanf cls printf "Your name is: " & MyVar wait(5)