Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

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Posted on by mavrick5au

We have a routine that builds a HTML file to send to a user. I do this by writing the text file to a directory and then sending the file via email.

What I want to do is delete the file again at the end of the the process.

Dexterity has Text_FileOpen and Text_FileClose commands to open and close a file, but no command to delete a file. I thought I may be able to use the DOS del command but I can't get that to work either.

Any ideas? The only other thing I can think to do is to write little application in .NET to do the file delete and call that using the "run application" command within SanScript.

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Mariano Gomez 26,225 on at

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RE: Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

It's always been there -- or less put it this way, as far back as I can remember :-)
mavrick5au 6 on at

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RE: Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

Thanks Mariano. That solves my problem. Has this command always been there or only in the more recent versions of Dex?
Mariano Gomez 26,225 on at

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RE: Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

By the way, you can run a DOS command from Dexterity too:

local string cmdPath = "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe"; local string cmdParams = "/c dir C:\Temp\*.*"; run application cmdPath, cmdParams;

If you want to keep the command shell window open, just use /k instead of /c.
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Mariano Gomez 26,225 on at

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RE: Can you execute DOS commands from within a sanScript procedure

Dexterity also provides the File_Delete() function. Just pass in the full path and name of the file in generic format, for example:

local string filePath = "C:\SomeFolder\SomeFile.txt"; local boolean result; filePath = Path_MakeGeneric(filePath); result = File_Delete(filePath);