Retur from commandprompt?

[faldo]

Is there a way to capture the return from a _RunDOS command?

As an example, lets say i need to gather DHCP-information from a computer by useing the "ipconfig"-command.

This won't work.

#include <Process.au3>
$rc = _RunDos("ipconfig")
MsgBox(0, "", $rc)

Edited June 16, 2009 by faldo

[LurchMan]

a quick and dirty way of doing it (and i know theres a much better way, but this works) is to just write the command to a txt file, then have auto it read the text file.

_RunDos("ipconfig >> c:\test.txt")

[Lars]

Hi Faldo,

Is there an other way to reach your goal,

For example if you want to use ipconfig, you can also use function provided by autoit to retreive an ip.

Using commandline stuff is most of the times bad practise and can also be done by using windows dll functions

and 15min of scripting.

So if you don't give us the example but the real case, there could be a better solution.

Lars

[faldo]

@Lars: Erm... i did give an example, but if you don't understand what i'm looking for here are two examples:

ie1: If you type "ipconfig /all" in a cmd-prompt, you get a whole lot of info, info that autoit won't provide with native functions... i need to gather that info.

ie2: If you type "systeminfo" in a cmd-prompt, you get a whole lot of info, info that autoit won't provide with native functions... i need to gather that info.

Sure autoit has some functions that returns portions of what i mention above but i need all of it.

I'm not sure how i can be any more clear on what i'm looking for Lars, sorry.

@LurchMan: Thanx for the quickfix, creating a file might not be optimal but does the job. Know if that ">>" syntax can push data in to an array somehow?

Edited June 16, 2009 by faldo

[herewasplato]

maybe StdoutRead

[faldo]

I've seen those std-functions but never understood how to use them... would you be as kind as to point me in the right direction to use it for this appliance?

[herewasplato]

You can glance at this:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...st&p=651194

But you might want to use this _RunReadStd() UDF:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41894

[faldo]

_RunReadStd() was exactly what i was looking for, thanx a lot!

[herewasplato]

_RunReadStd() was exactly what i was looking for, thanx a lot!

You are welcome - and you helped me too.

Every time that I go searching the forum for that UDF, I am reminded that it cannot be found using a "Search title only" for RunReadStd or _RunReadStd.

Searching for UDF _RunReadStd() works if you can remeber it.

This time, I bookmarked it in my profile :-)

Hmmm... maybe I can get lod3n to change the topic title.