How can I get user input (via a dialog window) in a Windows script?

Question

I'd like to create a simple search script that runs from the CMD prompt. It needs to asks for user input first e.g. "what to search".

How can I prompt the user for input (in cmd), or open a input dialog (in any standard scripting Windows language).

Answer 1

you can use user input dialog via InputBox function in vbscript

myString=InputBox("Enter")
WScript.Echo myString

Answer 2

At the command prompt, you can use StdIn:

Wscript.StdOut.Write "Enter a number: "
strNumber = Wscript.StdIn.ReadLine

This article is a pretty comprehensive look at different ways of getting user input in Windows Scripting. It's a bit old, but still helpful.