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Coffeehouse - system() but for ASP

RedShift — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:45:23 GMT

Hello,

php has a function called system where you can call system commands and executables, for example system('uptime')

Is there something like that for ASP? I'd like to show the output of the 'uptime -a' on windows 2003 server in a webpage.

Coffeehouse - system() but for ASP

dalangalma — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:12:30 GMT

System.Diagnostics has process-handling classes that let you deal with outside executables.

Coffeehouse - system() but for ASP

object88 — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:17:31 GMT

That seems like an odd place for it.

Coffeehouse - system() but for ASP

TommyW — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:23:43 GMT

Something like this is how you would use it in C# (implies ASP.NET, not plain ASP). You'll need to add using lines for System.Diagnostics and System.IO, too:

Process proc = new Process();
proc.StartInfo.FileName = "uptime.exe";
proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "-a";
proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

proc.Start();

StreamReader sw = proc.StandardOutput;
string myString = sw.ReadToEnd();
proc.Close();