XploRe Help : systemcall

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Group:	Remote Procedure Call
See also:	rpclink rpcsendrequest rpcstartclient rpcstartserver rpcstarttimer rpcstopclient rpcstopserver rpcstoptimer

Function:		systemcall
Description:		systemcall passes a UNIX command to the underlying UNIX shell.

Link:

Remote Procedure Call Tutorial

Usage:	`systemcall (command)`
Input:
	`command`	string

Note:

command can be any valid UNIX command. It is executed by the underlying UNIX shell. No result is returned to XploRe. If the "&" character appears at the end of the command, XploRe will not wait for the termination of this command.

Example:

systemcall ("date")

Result:


In this case, the current date and time are printed inside the UNIX shell, e.g.,
Wed Jul 23 16:28:51 MET DST 1997

Group:	Remote Procedure Call
See also:	rpclink rpcsendrequest rpcstartclient rpcstartserver rpcstarttimer rpcstopclient rpcstopserver rpcstoptimer

Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z