What "cscript //NoLogo" stands for?

Sarsur.A picture Sarsur.A · Aug 6, 2012 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

This is a java program code that runs the Notepad program and pastes a specific text stored in this program itself....

I was wondering if you can explain me the String vbs value, and also the File file, and the ("cscript //NoLogo " + file.getPath()) in the Process p. If you are as generous, then please explain me the whole code.

I'm a beginner in Java, well not exactly but if u wanna judge from 0 to 10 i would be 1.5/10

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import javax.swing.JTextField;

 public class PasteToNotepad {

   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     String text = "Some text for testing.";
     JTextField textField = new JTextField(text);
     textField.setSelectionStart(0);
     textField.setSelectionEnd(text.length() - 1);
     textField.copy();

     String vbs = ""
             + "Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")\n"
             + "WshShell.Run \"notepad\", 9\n"
             + "WScript.Sleep 500\n"
             + "WshShell.SendKeys \"^V\"";

     File file = File.createTempFile("PrintDialog", ".vbs");
     file.deleteOnExit();
     FileWriter fw = new java.io.FileWriter(file);
     fw.write(vbs);
     fw.close();
     Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cscript //NoLogo " + file.getPath());
     p.waitFor();
   }
 }

Answer

ruffin picture ruffin · Feb 17, 2015

Though this question wasn't primarily about cscript //NoLogo, regardless of its title, it still googles well for that phrase, so let's answer that in too much detail too.

I'm not sure why they call it a "logo", but it's exactly what you might think from the built-in help @MByD displayed. But in the interest of over-completeness...

C:\prompt>cscript spam.js
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\prompt>cscript //NoLogo spam.js

C:\prompt>

So if you're piping output and don't want all that Microsoft boilerplate, \\Nologo-ify it.

C:\prompt>cscript spam.js > out.txt

C:\prompt>more out.txt
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


C:\prompt>cscript spam.js //NoLogo > out.txt

C:\prompt>more out.txt

C:\prompt>

(spam.js has var spam = "spam"; in it.)

And, wow, that is a horribly convoluted way to get text into Notepad. I'm guessing it's more about teaching how to write to a file and exec a command from Java, perhaps?