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CFEXECUTE

Enables ColdFusion developers to execute any process on the server machine.

Syntax

<CFEXECUTE
    NAME=" ApplicationName "
    ARGUMENTS="CommandLine Arguments"
    OUTPUTFILE="Output file name"
    TIMEOUT="Timeout interval in seconds">
    ...
</CFEXECUTE>

NAME

Required. The full path name of the application that is to be executed.

Note:On Windows systems, you must specify the extension, for example, .exe, as part of the application's name.

ARGUMENTS

Optional. Any command-line arguments that should be passed to the program.

If ARGUMENTS is specified as a string, it is processed as follows:

• On Windows systems, the entire string is passed to the Windows process control subsystem for parsing.

• On UNIX, the string is tokenized into an array of arguments. ...