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#192938 - 2009-03-17 12:58 PM How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ?
yellowdog yellowdog Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-06-14 Posts: 102	Hello, I try in vain to initialize a kix variable with the content of a shell command. I want to set a variable with the result of: Quote: Shell '%comspec% /c ping -n 1 "$Machine" \| find /i "ttl"' I tried also to use the WshPipe UDF, but in vain. Either with: $pingres=wshpipe('ping -n 1 "$Machine" \| find /i "ttl"',1) OR $pingres=wshpipe('ping -n 1 "$Machine" \| find /i "ttl"') Thanks for a rapid answer
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#192939 - 2009-03-17 01:24 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: yellowdog]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	you need to specify the comspec for wshpipe too. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#192940 - 2009-03-17 01:45 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: Lonkero]
yellowdog yellowdog Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-06-14 Posts: 102	With the comspec command, it's OK. $pingres=wshpipe('%comspec% /c ping -n 1 "$Machine" \| find /i "ttl"',1) BUT if I want to extract display (?) the $pingres variable, the following error occurs. Quote: ERROR : Error in expression: this type of array not supported in expressions.! Script: F:\KIX Inventory\sep_machines.KIX Line : 28 Edited by yellowdog (2009-03-17 01:52 PM)
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#192941 - 2009-03-17 01:52 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: yellowdog]
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	k, what's $Machine? if $machine is not available, your line would indeed cause the result to be nothing. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#192942 - 2009-03-17 01:54 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: Lonkero]
yellowdog yellowdog Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-06-14 Posts: 102	$Machine is initialized correctly, it's extracted from a net view command. My problem now is, how do I extrcat the content of $pingres variable ?
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#192943 - 2009-03-17 02:32 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: yellowdog]
yellowdog yellowdog Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-06-14 Posts: 102	How do I get the content of $pingres=wshpipe('%comspec% /c ping -n 1 "$Machine" \| find /i "ttl"',1) If I perform a ? $pingres an error occurs. If there is an other way to transfer the result of a SHELL command to a local variable, let me know. It's rather urgent.
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#192944 - 2009-03-17 03:20 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: yellowdog]
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4548 Loc: USA	$pingres is an array not a string. for each $line in $pingres ? $line next
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#192945 - 2009-03-17 03:48 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: Allen]
yellowdog yellowdog Starting to like KiXtart Registered: 2005-06-14 Posts: 102	OK Allen, it sounds good now.
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#192948 - 2009-03-17 05:20 PM Re: How assign the result of SHELL command to a variable ? [Re: yellowdog]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4396 Loc: New Jersey	Again, the UDF Header is there as a mini-manual, and is intended to be read before use. From the header: Quote: ;Returns: ; Output of COMMAND in an array, ExitCode of the COMMAND in the @ERROR macro. If you look further at the code the return is an array of lines of the combined STDOUT and STDERR results. This is actually the main reason I don't use this function. I employ a modified function that returns STDOUT & STDERR as two elements of an array, but each is a simple string. This way, I can easily examine the STDOUT or STDERR streams independently. Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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