I actually have the same problem. Maybe windows will like better my putting the wolfram call in a bat file.

Still just getting the black cmd with no action. Tried creating a .wl file as well. When I open the .wls file and hit "run" it executes correctly.

I think you'll need to create a new .wls file from scratch, e.g., by using File > New > Package/Script > WolframScript Script (.wls) and copy and paste the code from the .nb file into the new .wls file and then save it.

In my experience, if you just use File > Save As... to save a .nb file with a .wls extension, all the code from the .nb file will be commented-out in the .wls file and the commented-out code will have no effect when you execute the script.

The black command window is what I would expect from running wolframscript. <scriptname> is a placeholder for the name of the file containing your .wsl code. If you use the argument "-file filename.wsl", it will execute the code in "filename.wsl".

Here's the documentation for wolframscript itself which may provide a better explanation https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframscript.html

Note that if you want to display output on the command window you either have to call the Print[] function in your code or use the "-print" or "-print all" options on the command line. "-print" will display the output of the last line executed; "-print all" will display output from all lines unless output from that line is suppressed using a semi-colon.

Thanks. I tried using wolframscript.exe as the program and "-file.wls" as the argument, but it just brings up a black cmd looking window and does nothing further. I'm not sure what you mean by <scriptname>.

Thank you for the help.