InputText cli

[UziTech]

I am trying to create a skin that has an InputText that will be a command sent to cmd.exe or powershell.exe. I can get it to open the command prompt but not enter the command that was entered into the InputText.

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[measureCmd]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=InputText
SolidColor=20,20,20,255
StringAlign=Left
StringCase=None
StringStyle=Bold
StringEffect=Shadow
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
X=10
Y=58
W=188
H=17
FocusDismiss=1
DefaultValue=""
Command1=["cmd" "$UserInput$"]
UpdateDivider=86400

What am I doing wrong?

[jsmorley]

You can't just pass a command to cmd.exe that way.

Try:
Command1=[cmd.exe /C "$UserInput$"]

You can use cmd /? to get help with cmd.exe while in a console.

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C:\Users\Jeffrey>cmd /?
Starts a new instance of the Windows command interpreter

CMD [/A | /U] [/Q] [/D] [/E:ON | /E:OFF] [/F:ON | /F:OFF] [/V:ON | /V:OFF]
    [[/S] [/C | /K] string]

/C      Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates
/K      Carries out the command specified by string but remains
/S      Modifies the treatment of string after /C or /K (see below)
/Q      Turns echo off
/D      Disable execution of AutoRun commands from registry (see below)
/A      Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be ANSI
/U      Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be
        Unicode
/T:fg   Sets the foreground/background colors (see COLOR /? for more info)
/E:ON   Enable command extensions (see below)
/E:OFF  Disable command extensions (see below)
/F:ON   Enable file and directory name completion characters (see below)
/F:OFF  Disable file and directory name completion characters (see below)
/V:ON   Enable delayed environment variable expansion using ! as the
        delimiter. For example, /V:ON would allow !var! to expand the
        variable var at execution time.  The var syntax expands variables
        at input time, which is quite a different thing when inside of a FOR
        loop.
/V:OFF  Disable delayed environment expansion.

[UziTech]

Thanks, that worked. I updated my command to:

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Command1=[cmd /K cd %USERPROFILE% && $UserInput$]

So it will execute any commands in the user folder and leave the command prompt open.

[jsmorley]

Glad to help.

[UziTech]

I was able to get powershell working with:

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Command1=[powershell -NoExit -Command cd $Env:USERPROFILE; $UserInput$]

[jsmorley]

To make this more reliable on different computers, I'd be tempted to use:

Command1=[powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoExit -Command cd $Env:USERPROFILE; $UserInput$]

[UziTech]

In my case I want my profile scripts to run. I essentially want this to be the same as opening powershell and running a command just faster since I don't have to open powershell first.

[jsmorley]

In my case I want my profile scripts to run. I essentially want this to be the same as opening powershell and running a command just faster since I don't have to open powershell first.

Fair enough. I just suggested those parms as by default powerhshell is not enabled from the command line in Windows, as a security measure. If this is on your computer only, and you have powershell configured to execute the way you want, then they are certainly not needed.

[UziTech]

In case anyone want's to use WSL:

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Command1=[bash -c 'cd ~;$UserInput$;bash']