Providing Shell Capabilities in an Action

Specify the shell in the execution string:

/bin/sh -c 'command'
/bin/ksh -c 'command'
/bin/csh -c 'command'

Examples

• This execution string illustrates an action that uses shell piping.

  	EXEC_STRING /bin/sh -c 'ps | lp'

• This is a more complex execution string that requires shell processing and accepts a file argument.

  	EXEC_STRING /bin/sh -c 'tbl %Arg_1"Man Page:"% | troff -man'

• This execution string requires that the argument be a compressed file. The action uncompresses the file and prints it using lp -oraw.

  	EXEC_STRING				/bin/sh -c 'cat %Arg_1 "File to print:"% | \
   					uncompress | lp -oraw'

• This execution string starts a shell script.

  	EXEC_STRING /usr/local/bin/StartGnuClient