A user just wrote to me to ask about using <CFEXECUTE>. He was trying to execute a command-line utility (based on an example I posted back in CF 5 days) and the code kept throwing Java errors. His specific problem turned out to be one of pathing, pre CFMX you may not have needed to provide fully qualified paths (for example, the path to cmd.exe) but now you do.
The following is a simple test, it invokes netstat and displays the results:
<cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\netstat.exe"
variable="data"
timeout="10" />
<cfdump var="#data#">
Executing a shell command (like DIR and SET) is a little trickier. You can't execute set directly, you'll need to execute the command interpreter (cmd on Windows) and have it execute set. And you MUST pass /c as an argument - this tells the command interpreter to run and terminate upon completion, without /c it will be waiting for an explicit exit command and will never return.
Here is an example using set:
<cfexecute name="c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe"
arguments="/c set"
variable="data"
timeout="10" />
<cfdump var="#data#">
Note: Obviously these example are Windows specific.
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