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Automate command-line applications

The example below shows how to run commands on a remote RPA Agent machine. Pay attention to how you can execute Groovy code remotely.

The example runs the ping -n 3 google.com command and fetches all the console output.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns="http://web-harvest.sourceforge.net/schema/1.0/config" scriptlang="groovy">
    <var-def name="console_script">
        import java.io.BufferedReader
        import java.io.InputStreamReader
        String command = "ping -n 3 google.com"
        StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer()
        Process p
        try {
            p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command)
            p.waitFor()
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()))
            String line = ""       
            while ((line = reader.readLine())!= null) {
                output.append(line + "\n")
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace()
        }
        return output;
    </var-def>

    <robotics-flow>
        <robot driver="desktop" name="aDriver" close-on-completion="true">
            <script><![CDATA[
                def scriptResult = executeGroovyScript(console_script.toString())
                println("   ping output:\n ${scriptResult}")
                sys.defineVariable("ping_output", scriptResult)
             ]]></script>
        </robot>
    </robotics-flow>

    <export include-original-data="false">
        <single-column name="ping_output" value="${ping_output}"/>
    </export>

</config>