A Couple Of <CFEXECUTE> Gotchas

Two little gotchas and tips pertaining to <cfexecute> that you should be aware of:

• There is no way to tell <cfexecute> where to execute your command. If you need to be in a specific folder when the command is executed, you should execute a batch file or script, and have it change to the desired folder and then execute the command.
• The <cfexecute> tag captures output (which can be returned, or saved to a variable or file). But only stdout output is captured, not stderr, and so if the command you are executing generates error messages to stderr you'll not see those in the captured output. The solution is to redirect stderr to stdout, if you are using Windows you can do this by adding the following to the end of the command to be executed: 2>&1