mibuso.com

Is it Possible to run one command in DOS from navision?
regards
febin

See the SHELL command in the C/AL manual

how to pass one caommand into dos by using shell


any body can give some examples or related links

use shell() or WSH.

Which command do you will send to DOS

I want to simply run Command prompt and pass DIR command.

Thanks

Something like SHELL(ENVIRON('comspec'), ' /c dir *.* > file.txt')

Its not working yaar

What's not working? do you see any messages. Replace /c with /k to see what happens...

ya now it is working ..
But its default path i'm seeing is licence file path......
where this path is storing ....
Do you have any Idea...

Please be more specific on what you need to accomplish by pass DOS command. You mentioned in the previous post that you only need to pass DIR command, but now, you want something different?

chiramel: first take a look how the command prompt works. If you want to write the contents of a directory to a file, you need to redirect it. Hence the '> file.txt. ' If you want to redirect it to a certain file in a certain directory, use '> <driveletter><pathname><filename>. For example, '> c:\test\output.txt' would redirect the output of the dircommand to the file output.txt, in the directory test, on de C: drive.

If you do not want the output to be written in a file, simply omit the '> file.txt' part.

If you want a specific directory to be listed, you need to change the dir command, like dir <driveletter><pathname><filename>, like dir c:\program files\*.* would list all the files in the directory program files on the c: drive.

If you got everything working, change the /k back to /c, so it will continue automatically.

If you want to test things first, start the commandprompt, and try the commands there, without the 'SHELL(ENVIRON('comspec'), ' /c' part


One more example: To get a listing of the complete windows directory of the computer, from navision, and get it in the file 'navoutput.txt' in the temporary directory, the command would be:

SHELL(ENVIRON('comspec'), ' /c dir %Windir%\*.* /s > %temp%\navoutput.txt')

Or, in more readable form (but less flexible)

SHELL(ENVIRON('comspec'), ' /c dir c:\windows\*.* /s > c:\docume~1\chiramel\locals~1\temp\navoutput.txt')


All in all, you need to take a look into the DIR command of the commandprompt. So start the commandprompt and type dir /?

Hi!

I would also recommend to use the "Windows Script Host" instead of SHELL, as it provides more smart features; e.g. like hiding the DOS-Box and avoiding the "Trusted-Confirmation-Dialog" (since NAV 4.00).

Here an example:

http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12417