<system-call> run a system command

name
system-call
xml namespace
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Call a system command and get output.

Commands may be invoked in one of two ways; either with the args attribute, which should be a list, or with the shell attribute which should be a string to be passed to the shell. For example, the following two calls are equivalent:

<system-call shell="ls -al"/>

<system-call args="['ls', '-al']"/>

The args form is preferred because shell is a potential security risk; if you don't escape parameters retrieved from a request it may be possible for a malicious use to execute code on your server.

If the process returns a non-zero error code, then a system-call.process-error exception is thrown. The info value of the exception will contain code and output.

Example

<system-call shell="ls -al" console="yes"/>
attributes
name purpose type required? default choices
args call arguments expression No None
console write output to the console? boolean No no
log write output to this log text No
output Destination for output reference No
shell shell command text No
inherited attributes
name purpose type required? default choices
dst Destination reference No
if Conditional expression expression No yes
value Value expression No None