Lucee Tag Reference

<cfexecute>

Enables developers to execute a process on a server computer.

Body

This tag must have a body.

Example

<cfexecute
[arguments=any]
[errorfile=string]
[errorvariable=string]
[name=string]
[outputfile=string]
[terminateontimeout=boolean]
[timeout=number]
[variable=string]>
</cfexecute>

This tag is also supported within cfscript

<cfscript>
execute
[arguments=any]
[errorfile=string]
[errorvariable=string]
[name=string]
[outputfile=string]
[terminateontimeout=boolean]
[timeout=number]
[variable=string] {
[...]
}
</cfscript>

Attributes

The attributes for this tag are fixed. Except for the following attributes no other attributes are allowed.

Name	Type	Required	Description
arguments	any	No	Command-line arguments passed to the application.
errorfile	string	No	The file to which to direct the error stream of the program. If neither errorFile nor errorVariable is specified, the error stream is discarded.
errorvariable	string	No	Variable in which to put program error stream output. If neither errorFile nor errorVariable is specified, the error stream is discarded.
name	string	No	The full pathname of the application to execute. Note: On Windows, you must specify the extension as part of the application's name. For example, myapp.exe,
outputfile	string	No	The file to which to direct the output of the program. If not specified, the output is displayed on the page from which it was called.
terminateontimeout	boolean	No	terminate execution of process when timeout occur
timeout	number	No	Indicates how long, in seconds, the executing thread waits for the spawned process. A timeout of 0 is equivalent to the non-blocking mode of executing. A very high timeout value is equivalent to a blocking mode of execution. The default is 0; therefore, the thread spawns a process and returns without waiting for the process to terminate.If no output file is specified, and the timeout value is 0, the program output is discarded.
variable	string	No	Variable in which to put program output. If no output file or variable attribute is specified, output is displayed on page from which it was called.