[Asterisk-Users] agi exec problem.

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 23 November 2003 20:17, tad wrote:
> hi folks.
>
> (apologies in advance if this is a particularly stupid question)
>
> just getting my feet wet with asterisk / agi, and am a little stuck
> using EXEC. it works fine for applicaitons that take simple
> arguments, but chokes on applications that require multiple words as
> arguments.
>
> for example, this works fine:
>  EXEC Playback(demo-congrats)
>
> but this doesn't:
>  EXEC add extension s,3,Playback(demo-congrats) into local
>
> problem seems to be that AGI reads the second example to be:
>  EXEC add extension
>
> and ignores the rest (presumably because it assumes the space after
> 'extension' singifies the end of the argument)
>
> is there a way around this?

You're confusing the CLI with applications.  You can _only_ EXEC an
application.  See the CLI command 'show applications' for a list of the
applications you can EXEC.

-Tilghman