Re: Shell context.
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texte = marc malacarme wrote: > I'm trying to use shell to send commands to the server and wish to see the > results. Including errors. Is there a way? > You can try redirecting STDERR to STDOUT, since that is probably all that WebCat's [shell] context returns: /some/command/that/errors -option 1 2>&1should show you the error. I can see that it might be useful for WebCat to capture STDERR also and provide that in a [lasterror] context. Remember that everything between [shell] and [/shell] is actually executed in the shell of your system, so the error context would have to be displayed external to the [shell] context...FWIW, you cannot use any [shell] command that requires answering a prompt.John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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marc malacarme wrote: > I'm trying to use shell to send commands to the server and wish to see the > results. Including errors. Is there a way? > You can try redirecting STDERR to STDOUT, since that is probably all that WebCat's [shell] context returns: /some/command/that/errors -option 1 2>&1should show you the error. I can see that it might be useful for WebCat to capture STDERR also and provide that in a [lasterror] context. Remember that everything between [shell] and [/shell] is actually executed in the shell of your system, so the error context would have to be displayed external to the [shell] context...FWIW, you cannot use any [shell] command that requires answering a prompt.John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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