How to use the exec binding with Windows 10

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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I think the whitespaces in the command could still make some problems.
Let‘s start with a bullet proof test.
Create a .bat file e.g. in your scripts folder with this command

dir > c:\path to your script file\output.txt

and call this command through executecommand line.
Eventually you have to start command.com and pass the batch file as an argument
If that works then replace dir with google command.

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There is a long discussion in this thread:

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I created a test.bat. If I start it manually it writes the output.txt.
Started with executecommandline it does nothing.
I dont know excatlly how to start it with command.com.

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Did you try

logInfo(executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5), "C:\\path to bat\\test.bat")

Just like to know if it works.

logInfo(executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5), "command.com" "/c" "start" "\"\"" "C:\\path to bat\\test.bat")

This is how you start a new command.com instance which runs the batch file.

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logInfo(executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"C:\\test.bat"))

leads to:

2023-08-24 21:59:00.869 [ERROR] [internal.handler.ScriptActionHandler] - Script execution of rule with UID 'Test-1' failed: An error occurred during the script execution: index=1, size=1 in Test

logInfo(executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"command.com" "/c" "start" "\"\"" "C:\\test.bat"))

seams to have wrong syntax:

2023-08-24 22:04:33.871 [WARN ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Configuration model 'Test.rules' has errors, therefore ignoring it: [13,68]: mismatched input '"/c"' expecting ')'[13,102]: mismatched input ')' expecting 'end'
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I had the same problem. Look here:

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In command

I would expect to see commas between the arguments.

So if you solved it for the exec binding why don’t you use it ?

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Yes. My fault. Maybe also replacing „/c“ with „\/c“

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Would that be the right syntax?

logInfo(executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"command.com","/c","start","\"\"","C:\\test.bat"))

I am not familiar anymore with DOS commands.

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I used winthing (no serice) to restart OH and IOTlink (service) to start command on my other computers.
IOTLink has the same windows service restrictions as OH running as a service. Winthing and IOTLink are not supported any more. So after solving the service restriction problem I wanted to give the exec binding a try not knowing the problem it cuases on windows.

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Why is this not running?

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not sure if the syntax is correct for logging, so better split it. I am not familiar anymore with DSL

var return = executeCommandLine …
logInfo ("test", return)

Please always provide any kind of results, logs etc otherwise we cannot help

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OK this works:

var response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"C:\\test.bat")
logInfo("Test ON", response)

This does not:

var response
rule "Test ON"
when
Item Test changed from OFF to ON
then 
response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"C:\\test.bat")
logInfo("Test ON", response)

Is this logic or syntax …?

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Syntax. You haven’t declared return as a variable. It needs to be

var response = ...

Ok. Now we have a starting point. test.bat is executed and output.txt is generated? Did you make sure it was not an old one from one of your tests from command line interface?

If you start chrome.exe from within your .bat file then we face the next problem that it is not loaded. Then you can try your solution by deactivating UAC

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UAC is off.

    var response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"echo Hallo")
    logInfo("Test ON", response)

leads to:

2023-08-25 09:52:30.314 [WARN ] [rg.openhab.core.io.net.exec.ExecUtil] - Failed to execute commandLine '[echo Hallo]'
2023-08-25 09:55:48.989 [INFO ] [rg.openhab.core.model.script.Test ON] - null

echo Hallo > c:\output.txt in the test.bat file works.

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put “echo hallo” into your test.bat.
or try

var response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"echo", "Hallo")

If this does not work you need to work with command.com as echo is an internal command

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echo “Hallo” > c:\output.txt in the test.bat file works if started from openHAB.

var response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(5),"echo", "Hallo")

leads to:

2023-08-25 10:21:38.604 [WARN ] [rg.openhab.core.io.net.exec.ExecUtil] - Failed to execute commandLine '[echo, Hallo]'
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what is the return value?
I gues you need to call echo command like this:

executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(2),"cmd.exe","/c","echo","hallo")

My fault. In all cases please replace command.com with cmd.exe.

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This works! returns hallo

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the command notepad.exe works on the command line.
But

var response = executeCommandLine(Duration.ofSeconds(60),"cmd.exe","/c","notepad.exe")
logInfo("Test ON", response)

leads to:

2023-08-25 11:14:55.160 [INFO ] [rg.openhab.core.model.script.Test ON] - Der Befehl "notepad.exe" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden.