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Shell.WriteInputText
Writes a text to input stream.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Server | FileMaker Cloud | FileMaker iOS SDK |
| Shell | 7.5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MBS( "Shell.WriteInputText"; ShellRef; Text { ; Encoding } ) More
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example value |
|---|---|---|
| ShellRef | The reference number from the shell. | $shell |
| Text | The text to send. | "Hello World" |
| Encoding | Optional The text encoding for text parameter. Possible encoding names: ANSI, Arabic-Mac, Arabic-Win, Baltic-Win, CentralEurope-Mac, ChineseSimp-Mac, ChineseSimp-Win, ChineseTrad-Mac, ChineseTrad-Win, Cyrillic-Mac, Cyrillic-Win, EasternEurope-Win, Greek-Mac, Greek-Win, Hebrew-Mac, Hebrew-Win, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-15, Korean-Johab, Korean-Mac, Korean-Win, Latin1, Mac, Native, ShiftJIS-Mac, ShiftJIS-Win, Turkish-Mac, Turkish-Win, UTF-8, DOS or Windows. Pass native to use the native encoding of the current platform. |
"UTF-8" |
Result
Returns OK or error.
Description
Writes a text to input stream.The child process and read this from the input stream.
Please make sure you use right line endings and encoding.
Examples
Sends text to shell:
MBS( "Shell.WriteInputText"; $shell; "Hello World"; "UTF-8")
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Created 11st November 2017, last changed 16th November 2017
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