asterisk users - Jan 2009 - Dumb question: retrieve values from OS-level commands?

Hi, all.  I want to execute a script, and return the value of said
(Python) script to the dialplan.  I thought something like

exten => 1,1,Set(MyWorkingDir=System(/bin/pwd))

might work, but apparently not.  I also looked into AGI stuff, but that
doesn't quite seem to be the right approach.  Surely there's *some* way
to
do this...

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

-Ken

On Thursday 22 January 2009 16:16:33 Ken D'Ambrosio
wrote:
> Hi, all.  I want to execute a script, and return the value of said
> (Python) script to the dialplan.  I thought something like
>
> exten => 1,1,Set(MyWorkingDir=System(/bin/pwd))
>
> might work, but apparently not.  I also looked into AGI stuff, but that
> doesn't quite seem to be the right approach.  Surely there's *some*
way to
> do this...
>
> Any suggestions?
Set(foo=${SHELL(my_shell_script.sh)})

-- 
Tilghman

Not sure if this is still valid - I used it on a project quite a while ago:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Backticks

PaulH


Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hi, all.  I want to execute a script, and return the value of said
> (Python) script to the dialplan.  I thought something like
>
> exten => 1,1,Set(MyWorkingDir=System(/bin/pwd))
>
> might work, but apparently not.  I also looked into AGI stuff, but that
> doesn't quite seem to be the right approach.  Surely there's *some*
way to
> do this...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>
>
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