ElectricCommander unique shell
I want to use the unique shell in ElectricCommander (EC). How do I specify in the "Shell" property of Procedure Step to use a unique shell that is installed on one of the resources?
In my case I want to use msys.
I am using Electric Commander and creating a new Procedure Step. I know about shells, cmd, sh, mysql, powershell.
Best Answer
I found out how to do it. If you want to use your own shell you must provide the direct path to that shell executable. For example:
C:\path\to\executable\*.exe
I wish this would be added to the help file.
or it can be in the agent account PATH.
This is true for any command you run in a step
your steps are saved in a file after substitution and it's sent on the agent.
This shell will be used to execute the stepâs commands on a resource. For example, using sh or cmd /c, the agent saves the command block to a temporary file with a .cmd extension and runs it:
sh foo.cmd or cmd /c foo.cmd
If you do not specify a shell on a step, at step run-time the server looks at the resource shell. If a resource shell is not set, the shell line used by the agent is platform dependent:
Windows:
cmd /q /c "{0}.cmd"UNIX:
sh -e "{0}.cmd"When you specify a shell (in the step or resource), and omit the cmd-file marker, the agent notices the omission and takes the correct action.
For example: a user specifies sh -x. The agent converts this to sh -x "{0}.cmd"
Two alternate forms of shell syntax where Commander uses a "marker," {0}, as a placeholder for the command file argument:
{0}
In this example, the command file is not meant to be the last argument in the final command line.
For example, mysql -e "source {0}"
This shell example runs the mysql command against this step's command containing sql.
{0}<.file extension>
In this example, the shell requires the command file to end in an extension other than .cmd.
For example, powershell "& '{0}.ps1'"
This shell example runs Microsoft PowerShell against this step's command containing PowerShell commands.
Notes:
- When the agent parses the shell, it will parse the extension as everything after {0}. until it sees a space or non-alphanumeric character.If your script uses International characters (non-ascii), add the following block to the top of your ec-perl command block:
use utf8;
ElectricCommander::initEncodings
This is the help sheet. It does not answer the question! It only says how to add arguments to the shell. I read this and every other document in the help section. Here gives me 4 example shells: cmd sh powershell mysql. How do I do something else like msys?
I forgot I also have access to "ec-perl." Nowhere in all of the help can I find a complete list of all shells that I can use,or how to use one that is not on that list.
How is msys different from shell? If it can run commands from a file, simply use that syntax replace the filename by the {0}.
when you use the API to create a step, there is a shell option you can set to whatever you want assuming the previous comment.
That is my question. How do I set it to whatever I want.
