Running sdelete.exe in VBScript using WScript.Shell

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Can anyone help out with the syntax for this?

Posted 8-Feb-11 7:41am

vanikanc

Updated 4-Apr-20 21:46pm

Nish Nishant

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-08T08:16:00

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Try something like this:

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Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "sdelete -z D:\temp "

Posted 8-Feb-11 8:16am

Nish Nishant

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vanikanc 8-Feb-11 14:24pm

What if you are in a file system, we have something that already reads thru files and uses the file system delete method. we are trying to use a cleaner and more reliable method with the sDelete. I plan to replace filesystem.delete with sDelete. would that work?

Nish Nishant 8-Feb-11 14:25pm

I don't see why it would not work.

vanikanc 8-Feb-11 14:33pm

I just say, WshShell.Run "sDelete -z", since I am already in the folder that needs files to be delete. I also made sure that the sdelete.exe file also resides in the same folder where I am running this vscript file.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Feb-11 15:01pm

Simple as that, a 5, should work.
--SA

vanikanc 8-Feb-11 15:05pm

But the command window keeps popping each time.
wsShell.Run("sdelete -z"), 2, True -- i tried to set this to 2 to run in silent mode but it still not working.

Nish Nishant 8-Feb-11 15:12pm

Try 7 instead of 2.

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