echo system command output to screen

[klod]

Hi Scott,

Hi had the same problem some times ago, and I solve it using a pipe:

global proc mySystemCommand(string $command)
{
print ($command + "\n");
$pipe = popen( $command, "r" );
while ( !feof( $pipe ) )
{
string $line = fgetline($pipe);
print $line;
}
pclose( $pipe );
}

The mySystemCommand works exactly the same as the maya system command.

That should help :)
Klod

[alexx]

hey,

when adding a "start" in front of your system calls, a command window opens and it even runs seperated from maya itself..

i used that for similar purposes.

example:

system("start xcopy /e /s /q \\\\internet\\all\\*.* c:\\myBackup");

should open a command window and let you see what happens but you can continue to work in maya without waiting for the command to finish

and if you want to be able to see the result later, you can redirect the output to a file with the >> like that:

system("start xcopy /e /s /q \\\\internet\\all\\*.* c:\\myBackup >>c:\\mayaCopyLog.txt ");


cheers

alexx

[doppelganger]

Thanks to you both for yout input. The combined advice has helped me allong quite a bit. This forum has proved invaluable once again!

Now I have a new problem. I create a userSetup.mel file with the following text

scriptJob -e "quitApplication" "system(\" start xcopy /d/e/y/i c:\\test c:\\test2 \")";

When I exit maya the command window says invalid number of parameters. I added the escaped quotes \" \" because the process wouldnt even run at all if I included it in the userSetup without them. Strangely if I run scriptjob from the command line in Maya it works without the quotes... but I digress from the real problem at hand.

if i declare a string with the command as such:

string $command = " start xcopy c:\\test c:\\test2 /d/e/y/i ";

scriptJob -e "quitApplication" "system($command)";

Then it runs fine. Can someone point out my logical or syntax error here... I would like to know why my original approach didn't work. It still looks like the same thing to be just substituting a variable for the same command.


Thanks

Scott

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