This example shows opening a text file in notepad window as a child process. It waits for 2000ms and kills the child process. The notepad window gets closed automatically.
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Set
shellObj = CreateObject(
"Wscript.Shell"
)
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'Opens C:\\prop_file.txt in the notepad window
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scriptExecObj = shellObj.Exec(
"notepad.exe C:\\prop_file.txt"
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'Possible status values
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' 0 - Running
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' 1 - Finished
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WScript.echo
"Status : "
& scriptExecObj.Status
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'Wait for sometime and close the notepad
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WScript.Sleep(2000)
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scriptExecObj.Terminate
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Status : 0 Status : 1
