How to execute a command from my rules file?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@zzzz

And I would rather prefer doing it in the rules something like executeCommandLine(“sudo reboot”)

So have you actually tried doing that?

@zzzz

Could you give me a detailed guide how to use it?

http://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/exec/readme.html

With either approach, when you encounter problems:

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