How to automate mscommand prompt through blueprism

[malligac]

How to automate MScommand prompt (cmd.exe)

[TomBlackburn1]

I've not automated command prompt through Blue Prism, but have developed some objects to automate the WinSCP command prompt and PuTTY. However, I have found that for the purposes required - I have been able to pre-code batch scripts of powershell scripts and use the Start Process action. Perhaps this could be something you could look into, rather than interfacing with the command prompt.

[Anonymous]

We can automate command prompt using BP. Please use the below steps 1) Using utility environment object, select start process action & pass the application value as ""C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"" 2) Using navigate stage attach the cmd application with input windows title as ""C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"" 3) Enter the any command using global send keys event to cmd application like ""dir {RETURN}

[TomBlackburn1]

Sudarshant - Out of curiosity, can you read from contents of the command prompt? E.g. wait for an action to complete? I haven't tested, but I imagine you can't. I had some issues with PuTTY like that so had to use other work arounds.

[TomBlackburn1]

OCR should be a last resort. I was looking for a direct API read using Win32/AA. However I now use write out the result to a .txt file, then download that into Blue Prism to query the output result.

[TetsujiJunicho]

For Read, Send Key ALT+SPACE, E, S, Enter. Then Read From Clipboard by using Utiltity Environment#Get Clipboard.

[SANJIBSINHA]

Could you please share the object if possible.

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SANJIB SINHA
Software Senior Engineer
TELSTRA
Asia/Kolkata
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