Capture standard output (stdout) in console command running at VBS
We can use WScript.Shell.Exec( ) and WScript.Shell.StdOut.ReadLine( ) to perform the task: Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objExecObject = objShell.Exec("cmd /c dir") strText="" Do While Not objExecObject.StdOut.AtEndOfStream strText = strText & objExecObject.StdOut.ReadLine() & chr(13) Loop Wscript.Echo strText