Shell command syntax in Windows

[Mike Bonner]

DOH, ignore the ; method. For some reason I was stuck in mac/linux
thinking.  The absolute method still works fine.  (could embed a return in
your command string rather than a semicolon.) Sorry bout that, was sleepy.


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Easiest way to do it with shell is with the absolute path. Or you could cd
> to the location, and use a semicolon to string two commands like so:
> put shell(merge("cd [[path]] ; dir")) into field one -- changes directory,
> then gets the dir.
> Or this with an absolute path.
>
> put the shortfilepath of "c:\whatever path\you need\" into tPath --
> shortfilepath so you don't have to worry about escaping spaces.  Turns it
> into an 8.3 path.
> put shell(merge("dir [[tPath]]")) into field one -- single shell command
> rather than 2 strung together with semicolon
>
> The shellcommand isn't used to set the path, it should point to the shell
> you wish to use for the command execution. (not on my windows machine, so
> can't tell you where cmd is) Shouldn't be needed in this case though.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Bill-
>>
>> Monday, June 23, 2014, 7:45:52 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > I m trying to run a shell command on Windows and the following
>> > code gives an error on the  put the wheel of  dir  into field  one .
>>
>> > The goal of the script below is to get a directory listing in the
>> Programs folder.
>>
>> > Setup: A field  one  and a button where this script is in.
>>
>> > on mouseUp
>> >    set the shellCommand to  C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Start Menu\Programs
>> >    put shell ( dir ) into field  one
>> > end mouseUp
>>
>> Been a while since I've had to deal with Windows, but I believe the
>> shellCommand has to point to either command.com or cmd.exe, depending
>> on the Windows version.
>>
>> If you want to get a directory listing of the Programs folder, why not
>> set the defaultFolder and get the files?
>>
>> --
>> -Mark Wieder
>>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
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