Dos Commands Inside Wpi?

[cparker]

Hi

Quick question, is it possible to run dos commands from within WPI.

For example mkdir, I get an error message that it cant find the file.

Any ideas how to fix this? I dont really want to create cmd files to do the same thing.

Thanks

[Stalkie]

Most DOS functions isn't programs in 2k/XP, but only functions of CMD.

At the end of generate.js in your WPI/wpiscripts folder is a function called substituteCommand where those commands can be replaces.

About the makedir, I've changed the function a bit to this:

function substituteCommand(cmd)
{
	var prog = path(cmd);
	var firstToken = prog.substr(0,prog.indexOf(" "));
	switch (firstToken.toUpperCase())
	{
  case 'FILECOPY': prog = ("CMD /C " + prog.replace(/FILECOPY/gi,'copy')); break;
  case 'DIRCOPY': prog = ("CMD /C " + prog.replace(/DIRCOPY/gi,'xcopy') + "/I /E /Y"); break;
  case 'RENAME': prog = ("CMD /C " + prog.replace(/RENAME/gi,'ren')); break;
  // Additions by carsten@indysign.dk
  case 'DELETE': prog = ("CMD /C "+ prog.replace(/DELETE/gi, 'del') +" /q"); break;
  case 'MAKEDIR': prog = ("CMD /C "+ prog.replace(/MAKEDIR/gi, 'mkdir')); break;
	}
	return prog;	
}

[Swimming_Bird]

i just have wpi call a batch file.

[Stalkie]

i just have wpi call a batch file.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You could do that, but with many DOS-calls you quickly clutter your CD.

I belive the inline way is more clean, but to each his own :-)

[Swimming_Bird]

i definatley know what you mean but i only have to call 2 so its not a big pain for me.

[Doc Symbiosis]

@Stalkie: Thanks for the post.

I was searching a long time for a solution to the problem of running commands directly in WPI.