<inputText> Element

The <inputText> element is a child element of the <execNative> element. This child element specifies the arbitrary text that should be used as standard input to the command. The text is specified as the contents of this element.

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

The body of the <inputText> element can be enclosed in a CDATA section to preserve the formatting of the input and to avoid parsing errors that might be caused by input that contains the & and < characters.

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

The contents of <inputText> are config-generated.

The <inputText> element has no attributes.