[asterisk-users] ! Command from -rx?

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Aug 4 21:09:44 CDT 2007


On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:16:22PM -0400, Matt wrote:
> This may sound stupid.. so bear with me for a moment.
> 
> Assuming the only access I have to a machine is through asterisk -rx
> can I use the ! command?
> 
> asterisk -rx help
> 
> includes the ! command, but I can't seem to get it to work ie:
> 
> asterisk -rx "! ls"

What do you need that for?

'!' is pointless with asterisk -rx: with asterisk -r, '!' runs a local
command in a subshel (or starts a new subshell) by the local cleint
asterisk. It does nothing by the server.

So you might as well just run:

  ls

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