Wait till Cmd execution stops

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Is there any way to wait until cmd execution stops? Right now workflow execution stops but cmd still runs in the background. Please kindly share the solution.
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One option is the cmd execution should indicate the completion by some mechanism ie create a file, update some flag, send a mail etc… in the workflow use dowhile loop to check the completion.

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You could use the get process activity to determine if cmd execution is still running or not and use this as the trigger when it stops perhaps?

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It is a bit tricky but you can copy the output of your command into your clipboard with “|clip” and compare the string that cmd returns to you. Only works when the command returns something and when you start the command yourself of course.

Does work like this:

  1. In Studio: Set the clipboard to a default Value with the “Set to Clipboard”-Activity (Something like: “Not Finished”)
  2. In Cmd window: command |clip
  3. In Studio: Use “Get From Clipboard”-Activity in a while loop to set it to a String variable
  4. Compare the String in the Condition of the while loop. (Like: not clipboardVar.Equals(“Not Finished”))

So as long as the the value in the variable of the clipboard is the default value that you set in step 1 the command is not finished. If you do it like this you should consider using a limit of comparisons(Compare a counter of the Tryouts as well) because if something goes wrong your process will stay in the while loop forever.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Bob

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Seems easy solution, I will try this.
Thanks

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Thanks Everyone :slight_smile: