Question

How can I execute two consecutive commands on the command line with the help of wshshell.exec or wshshell.run in vbscript? For example I need to execute cd C:\a and then winzip32.exe -min -a D:\a.

Answer 1

You can do something like cd C:\a & winzip32.exe -min -a D:\a where the & separates commands so the that second one runs once the first has finished successfully. For example, you could run it like this:

Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("cmd /c cd C:\a & winzip32.exe -min -a D:\a")

Without the cmd /c in the beginning, you can’t do things like cd because cmd.exe is responsible for processing the cd and &.