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Get The Data From The DOS Command Prompt In Automation Anywhere 10.5

In this article, we will get the data from the DOS command prompt in automation anywhere.

Steps

To achieve that, we will follow these steps

Open command prompt using ‘Open Application’ command
Enter the key stroke ‘cd c:\temp’ using ‘Insert Keystrokes’ command. The purpose is to go to ‘c:\temp’ path.
Enter the key stroke ‘dir’ using ‘Insert Keystrokes’ command to get the list of folders.
Capture the screen shot using ‘Application Integration’ command.

Open Command Prompt Using ‘Open Application’ Command

First, drag and drop ‘Open Application’ command and mention the application name as ‘cmd.exe’

Picture showing opening the command prompt using the Open Program/File command

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Enter The Key Stroke ‘Cd C:\Temp’

Drag and drop ‘Insert Keystrokes’ command and enter ‘cd c:\temp’ + Enter

Picture showing executing the cd command in command prompt using Insert Keystrokes command

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Enter The Key Stroke ‘Dir’

Drag and drop ‘Insert Keystrokes’ command and enter ‘dir’ + Enter

Picture showing executing the dir command in command prompt using Insert Keystrokes command

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Capture The Screen Shot Using ‘Application Integration’ Command

Drag and drop the ‘DOS Command Prompt’ action from ‘Application Integration’ command.

Picture showing the DOS Command Prompt action from Application Integration command

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You will get the following window

Picture showing opening the command prompt in admin mode using App integration command

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In this window, you can select the window and variable name (where automation anywhere will extract the text from image and assign it to the variable). Once you click on ‘Save’, you will get following message

Picture showing the confirmation message before the capturing of screenshot of the window

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Please note that cmd.exe should be opened to take the screen shot. Last step is to display the value of variable. So, you can drag and drop message box

Picture showing a message box to display the result of the variable

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Now run the task and you will get following output

Picture showing the output of Get the data from the DOS command prompt in automation anywhere 10.5

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Saturday, October 6, 2018

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