The exec Child Element (N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Reference Guide)

N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Reference Guide

The exec Child Element

An <execNative> step can contain exactly one <exec> element. The <exec> element specifies the details of the native command to be executed.

The <exec> element contains:

an attribute, cmd, that specifies the name of the command to execute
a set of nested arg elements that specify each of the arguments for the command specified with cmd.

<execNative> executes the command specified in cmd directly with the arguments in the order they are specified.

For example, the <execNative> step below:

<execNative>
	<exec cmd=”ps”>
		<arg value=”-fu”/>
		<arg value=”sps”/>
	</exec>
</execNative>

will execute the command: ps –fu sps.

Name	Type	Required	Configurable	Description
cmd	String	Yes	Yes	The path of the command to execute. If the specified path is not absolute the command is looked up using the platform specified PATH environment variable setting for the RA. Should be a non-empty string

Name	How Many?	Description
arg	0 or more	The arguments to the command being executed. Each arg element defines one positional parameter to the command.

Name	Type	Required	Configurable	Description
value	String	Yes	Yes	The argument value. This argument will be supplied as the nth argument to the command where arg is the nth child of the command element.