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Say I have a file on my desktop that doesn't have extension, but contains some code (say Batch or VBS).
Can I run this code without adding an extension to the file?
I was personally thinking about using powershell to pass an extension to wscript.exe, but this turned out to be somewhat impossible.

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For VBS\JS scripts you need to specify engine with //E switch.

Examples:

  • If file xxx contains VbScript code: wscript //E:VBScript c:\xxx
  • If file xxx contains JavaScript code: wscript //E:JScript c:\xxx

For batch files, it's not so easy. There is some workarounds, but they're somewhat limited: How to run batch script with out using *.bat extension

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