[Project_owners] Access to Terminal

[joe ertaba]

what if i want for example show directory list; use ls command with terminal
?

Wget is a example I want to access to terminal and run some commands from
there

On Jan 27, 2008 4:14 PM, Jesper Staun Hansen <jesper at selvet.dk> wrote:

> Well, I think you missed a concept here. You dont need to start a
> terminal to start an application.
> So you would just start "/usr/bin/wget" and not "/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/wget" as that would open a terminal right in the face of the
> user. You probably dont want that?
> Instead just type them in. And darn, get a Linux OS if you wanna try'em
> out :)
>
> joe ertaba wrote:
> > http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Running_applications
> >
> > in windows I can put "c:\\windows\\cmd.exe" to run command prompt but
> > what about linux ? what is the terminal path :)
> >
> > PS: did you see _new beta edition_ of flashgot ? they only support
> > wget & terminal in new beta edition (not publish yet !)
> >
> >
> > On Jan 27, 2008 3:41 PM, Jesper Staun Hansen <jesper at selvet.dk
> > <mailto:jesper at selvet.dk>> wrote:
> >
> >     that was one tricky question. Used some time to find you an
> >     answer. This
> >     will probably be my best guess:
> >
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Running_applications
> >
> >     The way they run it is (look in components/flashgotService.js):
> >     runNative: function(args, blocking, exeFile) {
> >        try {
> >          if (typeof(exeFile)=="object"
> >            || (exeFile = this.exeFile).exists()
> >            || this.createExecutable()) {
> >            const
> >     proc=CC['@mozilla.org/process/util;1'].createInstance(<http://mozilla.org/process/util;1%27%5D.createInstance%28>
> >     <http://mozilla.org/process/util;1%27%5D.createInstance%28>
> >              CI.nsIProcess);
> >            proc.init(exeFile);
> >            this.log("Running " + exeFile.path + " " + args.join(" ") +
> >     " --
> >     " +(blocking ? "blocking" : "async") );
> >            proc.run(blocking,args,args.length,{});
> >            if (blocking && proc.exitValue != 0) {
> >              this.log("Warning: native invocation of\n"
> >                +exeFile.path
> >                +"\nwith arguments <"
> >                +args.join(" ")
> >                +">\nreturned "+proc.exitValue);
> >            }
> >            return proc.exitValue;
> >          } else {
> >            this.log("Bad executable "+exeFile);
> >          }
> >        } catch(err) {
> >          this.log("Error running native executable:\n" + exeFile.path +
> >            " "+args.join(" ")+"\n"+err.message);
> >        }
> >        return 0xffffffff;
> >      }
> >
> >
> >     joe ertaba wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > how can I access to *linux terminal* from
> >     "@mozilla.org/process/util;1 <http://mozilla.org/process/util;1>
> >     > <http://mozilla.org/process/util;1>"
> >     >
> >     > I want to send some commands to terminal from my extension, some
> >     thing
> >     > like run wget to get files ,...
> >     >
> >     > PS: recently Flashgot runs Wget in terminal window
> >     >
> >
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