Command Prompt Activities
by Manish Jagtap
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Command Prompt Activities
by Manish Jagtap
5
Custom Activity
10.4k
Summary
Summary
Overview
Overview
ExecuteSingleCommand Activity: This activity opens the command prompt, executes the provided command and returns the console output as a string.
If the input property SingleLineOutput is set to True then only the specific command output will be retrieved, else by default the entire console output will be fetched.
This activity is helpful when only a single command has to be executed and the command output has to be fetched.
OpenCommandPrompt Activity: This activity opens the command prompt session and provides the CMD process as output. This activity has no input parameters. The output from this activity is used as input for the activities ExecuteCommand, CloseCommand and GetConsoleOutput.
ExecuteCommand Activity: This activity executes the specified input command on the already opened command prompt process. This activity is useful when multiple commands have to be executed on the same command prompt session.
CloseCommand Activity: This activity closes the input stream to the specified command prompt process. This activity must be used after the OpenCommandPrompt and ExecuteCommand activities.
GetConsoleOutput Activity: This activity is used to get the command prompt console output as a string once the commands are executed and closed using the ExecuteCommand and CloseCommand activities respectively. The activity has the complete console output of the executed commands of the specified command prompt session.
Complete details of how to use these activities can be found in the attached document.
Features
Features
Additional Information
Additional Information
Dependencies
Code Language
Visual Basic
Runtime
Windows Legacy (.Net Framework 4.6.1)
License & Privacy
MIT
Privacy Terms
Technical
Version
1.0.8Updated
01 May 2021Works with
Compatibility tested with Studio versions 2019, 2020 and 2021
Certification
Silver Certified
Tags
Command prompt
cmd
cmd console
Windows cmd
Application
Microsoft Windows
Support
UiPath Community Support
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