executeCommandLine to sleep other computer(s)

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
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I am confused on how to use the executeCommandLine action.
The documentation makes it seem simple enough… https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Actions#other-actions

My goal is to use it to send a sleep command to other computer(s). I got a basic command to run like executeCommandLine(“nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 2”). That uses nircmd to toggle the mute.

I need to run something like this:
psexec \192.168.10.107 -u 192.168.10.107\openhab -p PASSWORD rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

The editor doesn’t like the \ character. Trying to run the rule anyway doesn’t have any result.
Anyone know how I can send the \ character or send a sleep command to another system another way?
Thanks!

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The “” is treated as an escape character. Since you are on Windows and paths use “” you need to escape it by using two: “\”

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Hey cool, good to know.
Now I don’t think I am doing the timeout part right as I get nothing back in the log at all. The rule is being run, I can tell from the log command right before. In one spot I need two slashes, would I add 4??

(the following line has 4 slashes before the IP, it just won’t paste that way in the forum)

executeCommandLine("psexec.exe \\\\192.168.10.107 -u 192.168.10.107\\openhab -p PASSWORD rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0",15000)

I tried just the ,15000 to add wait time to catch any error.

Any thoughts on the silence in the logs on what happened? The remote computer does not sleep but I am not sure why. It does sleep when running the command manually from the OH machine.
Thanks for your help!

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Yes.

You have to log it out yourself.

val results = executeCommandLine("command", 15000)
logInfo("test", results)
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Thanks for your help, got it working. The last version probably would have worked but needed a longer timeout period to complete. Seeing the log start the command and never finished made it clear it just needed more time.
Thanks again!