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Hi all,

this is essentially again the question of how to save the output of a command prompt to a file.
Please tell me what is wrong with my script...I have tried many combinations, with or without the quotes, one or two ">" etc.
Can never get it to work.
Here is the actions on my button:

Launch File

Launch this file: ping.exe
With option/parameter: www.google.com > "d:\\pingresult.txt"

Thanks

Dennis

have you tried ?? :
"d:\pingresult.txt"

My understanding of Opus is that the 'escape character' is required where ECMA / opusscript is involved. But it seems with strings in variables and maybe strings in passed parameters to other controllers... does not use the double slash....

Thanks for your answer,

yes, I have tried that.
If the parameter is only www.google.com and nothing else, it works and shows a command prompt window and starts pinging google.
But if I put the rest, it shows a command prompt which quickly dissapears.

Thanks

Dennis

You're misunderstanding - ping cannot output to a text file - command prompt can.

Launch:



Parameters:




Mack

Mack!!!!!!

yes, that was an eye opener... worked at the first attempt.
Now I see the misunderstanding...

Many thanks!

Dennis

ETA: Oops, and great. Mack got it there first. Took me awhile to get there.

Hopefully we will not have to say 'never'.

I have played with this a bit. For the longest time and trying different approaches or set-ups, I was going to conclude it was either a Permissions issue (UAC), or that the cmd line tool was setting a path to something other than C:\Windows\System32.

Then all of a sudden, I got it to work. What puzzles me is that I am pretty sure the successful configuration is not different that what I tried before without success.

= = = = = = = = Also, I got some weird behaviours in Opus Previewing / Testing = = = = = = =
Just to check my work, I created another Button on the same page and set it up from scratch to do the launch cmd.exe with parameters to ping a site. First and second time it worked. Then I saved my Pub, did another Preview and that same new Button did not work. However, the 1st Button did work.

My CONCLUSION for the root cause of the problem is this. It is easy to make a small mistake when setting this up in Opus standard actions. On one hand, it seems very 'forgiving'... use 1 or 2 '\' in the filepath, use quotes around filepath or okay without (if no spaces). But try Launching the cmd.exe and using ping as one of the parameters. And look for small mistakes, typos, whatever.

What worked:
BTW, you only need the 1st action, Launch File. The others were there for troubleshooting.