The inputText Child Element

The <inputText> element is a child element of <execNative>. The <inputText> element specifies any arbitrary text that should be fed into the command's standard input. The text is specified as contents of this element.

You can use <inputText> to enclose input in CDATA sections, preserving the formatting of the input and avoiding parse errors that might be caused by input containing the characters `& and `<'.

For example:

<execNative>
		<inputText> 		  ls –l |fgrep `*test*'|sort –u >file.out 
	</inputText> 		<command exec=”sh”/> </execNative> 

If the <inputText> is specified, it will always be enclosed within a CDATA section when generating XML for the <execNative> step. All the characters within inputText are fed as it is to the command being executed. If inputText contains only white spaces, those white spaces will be fed, exactly as they are specified, into the standard input of the command being executed.

The contents of <inputText> are config-generated.

The <inputText> element has no attributes.