[asterisk-users] Dumb question: retrieve values from OS-level commands?

[Tilghman Lesher]

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)})

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Tilghman