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Run external bat file and retrieve a value it echos to the console

dbaldon

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From a scripted function I need to run an external bat file that will return a echo'd value.

Nov 19, 2019 • #1

There isn't a way to do that unfortunately. If your bat file can write to a text file, you could write a value there and then read it into the script like this:

string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("stuff.txt");

Hope that helps!

Nov 20, 2019 • #2

dbaldon

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So can I assume that DF can't launch an external progrm or that it can't retrieve the value echo'd to the console?

I can change the .bat file to write to a file but I still need to be able to launch the .bat file to begin with.

I'll also look into doing this from native C# code. That doesn't look too difficult.

Nov 20, 2019 • #3

You can start a .bat file, yep! Like this:

BFS.Application.Start("D:\\temp\\test.bat", "");

Nov 21, 2019 • #4

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