Execute External Programs

abstract Sahi allows calling external programs via _execute or by calling Java directly

Execute

Execute allows calling batch files, shell scripts or regular commands from Sahi script.

Parameters
$cmdstring Command to be executed. Normally this will be a command that can be run on the system's commandline
$isSyncboolean optional If true, returns only on completion of cmd. If false, returns immediately while cmd is run in background
$timeoutinteger optional If timeout is specified and if isSync is true, the function will return after timeout milliseconds if cmd has not finished till then. cmd will continue to run in background
Return Value
stringcommand output

Modes Supported :
Raw Script
_execute("C:\\sendemail.bat"); // runs C:\sendemail.bat and returns immediately while sendmail runs in the background

_execute("C:\\sendemail.bat", true); // runs C:\sendemail.bat and waits till sendmail finishes

// runs C:\sendemail.bat and returns after 2 seconds if sendmail has not completed by then.
_execute("C:\\sendemail.bat", true, 2000);

// if _execute("C:\\sendemail.bat"); does not work, on Windows, try:
_execute("cmd /C C:\\sendemail.bat");

// On Linux and Mac use forward slashes as filepath separator
// Make sure that the shell script has necessary permissions
_execute("/home/user1/bin/sendemail.sh");
// or
_execute("sh /home/user1/bin/sendemail.sh");

Sahi Pro Classic API :_execute