[RESOLVED] Shelling out ipconfig on win2000

Hi,

I was wondering if someone can help me or have had a similar experience.

I am trying to shell ipconfig with an output to a text file which I can later parse.

Code:

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ShellandWait ("ipconfig >" & sIPFileLoc)

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sIPFileLoc is a string variable for the file location and name.
ShellandWait is a function to wait until the shell has completed(found on this very site)

Now when I run this command, it complains of an invalid syntax because of the ">" yet if I manually run the same command from a command prompt it works fine.

There is no problem with directory naming as sIPFileLoc is stripped to 8.3 file naming standards (e.g. Documents and Settings becomes Docume~1) even so, I have tried it with Chr(34) wrapped around the variable but still the same.

So I created a batch file just to see if it would work.. When running the batch file with @echo on, it outputs an additional 1 as such

command in bachfile:

Code:

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ipconfig >c:\testdir\ip.txt

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Output:

Code:

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ipconfig 1>c:\testdir\ip.txt

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But this DOES work and creates ip.txt containing the output of ipconfig.
So I altered the Shell command to incorporate the 1 (just to see)

Code:

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ShellandWait ("ipconfig 1>" & sIPFileLoc)

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But that did not work.

Now I can create a batch file on the fly, shell it then delete it once complete, but that is rather messy and was wondering if there was a work around.

PS, I can not use WinSock control to get the IP address as it is a standalone app.

Thanks

Whoa!

No... To use Ipconfig with ShellandWait you have to use it this way :)

Code:

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Ret = ShellAndWait("Command.com /c ipconfig > " & sIPFileLoc)

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Where sIPFileLoc is a valid path...

Cheers Koolsid,

command.com /c !!!!!

aaaargh! an oversite on my behalf, should have seen that. Don't use shell much and thinking about it now, it's obvious.

So you are aware, the ommited space (Chr(32)) between > and " was due to me messing with the batch file, which complained when it was there.

Thanks for your help.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by pr1ngl3

Cheers Koolsid,

command.com /c !!!!!

aaaargh! an oversite on my behalf, should have seen that. Don't use shell much and thinking about it now, it's obvious.

So you are aware, the ommited space (Chr(32)) between > and " was due to me messing with the batch file, which complained when it was there.

Thanks for your help.

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Glad to be of help :)