VBscript code to capture stdout, without showing console window

Question

This is a VBScript code example that shows how to catch whatever a command line program sends to standard output. It executes the command xcopy /? and shows the

Answer 1

Instead of WScript.Shell, consider using using Win32_Process with startupInfo.ShowWindow = 0 to launch the process with SW_HIDE. I posted a detailed example under VBS Run cmd.exe output to a variable; not text file.