Passing Variables to the Command Line

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beCool

Hello all,

I'm new to JavaScript so bear with me. I am sending a command to windows CMD line which is working. However I want to change the username and password in the command to variables within my script. I can't seem to find any syntax anywhere that allows me to do so. Here's what I when it's hard-coded without variables:

Sys.OleObject("Wscript.Shell").Run('cmd /k(cd c:\"Program Files (x86)\"\TheFolder\program client & program SETWORKINGFOLDER "$//Test Complete Scripts" "C:\dave" -host 192.222.22.226 -user "Johndoe" -password "mypassword" -repository "RepoFolder" & program GET -host 192.168.254.226 -user "Johndoe" -password "mypassword" -repository "RepoFolder" "$//Test Complete Scripts" -merge overwrite -setfiletime current)');

for the variables I've tried this:

var userName = '"Johndoe"';
Sys.OleObject("Wscript.Shell").Run.................-user %userName

any help is appreciated! thanks!

deathshadow

beCool;1345239 wrote:
I am sending a command to windows CMD line which is working.

Shouldn't be... that should be blocked outright... lemme guess, IE8 or earlier?

Really what you are doing is something that JavaScript shouldn't even have access to in the first place. Completely the wrong language for the job, and if what you have there actually works, you've got a security hole on your system the size of the USS IOWA.

root

WScript is not JavaScript.

beCool

lol! The script is not manipulating a browser nor is it built into a site. It is being used in a testing software. It is simply getting the latest files from a repository. WScript works with JavaScript apparently. All I need to know is what to put around the variable in order for the command line to be able to recognize it as a variable.

root

Of sorts, more like JScript than JavaScript.

beCool

Sooooo, anyone have any ideas? Technically what i'm using is JScript. It's used in a testing software that can run desktop, mobile and web applications. In this situation I'm simply using the CMD prompt to refresh a program that get's the latest files from a shared server. Any help is greatly appreciated.