Getting script return code with StdOutRead

[DanielDaniel]

Hi all,

I am running the following command:

$val = Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & chr(34) & $CmdLineRaw & chr(34), @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)

then reading the output with StdOutRead. All works fine, except for the fact that $val seems to contain a random return code from the command. The value of $CmdLineRaw is a VBS script that ends with the line WScript.Quit(2). But $val never gets the value of 2 (it looks like it contains the process ID of the command when it ran.

Before I added StdOutRead to Run command, $val was receiving the return code correctly.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I suspect that it is because I am using the "cmd /c" part, but using that was the only way I could get StdOutRead to work.

Cheers,

Daniel

[smartee]

you are right. run returns the pid, runwait, however, returns the exit code.

[JohnOne]

Run returns the PID

You want RunWait, which returns the exit code.

[DanielDaniel]

you are right. run returns the pid, runwait, however, returns the exit code.

Thanks! I changed Run for RunWait, and now the StdOut has stopped working. Here's the code:

$val = RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & chr(34) & $CmdLineRaw & chr(34), @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)

[smartee]

Thanks! I changed Run for RunWait, and now the StdOut has stopped working. Here's the code:

$val = RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & chr(34) & $CmdLineRaw & chr(34), @SystemDir, @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)

Probably you can try sending output to a file directly like iamtheky did