Exec

The Exec action executes a specified binary and passes the arguments to it.

The workflow will wait until the program has exited before it continues.

Inputs

• file - a string pointing to the binary to execute.
• args - (optional) a string array with arguments to pass to the executable.
• std_in - (optional) a string (or function taking a context parameter) that returns the data to write to the process standard input.

Outputs

• exit_code - the exit code of the process that was launched.
• std_err - the output which was written to stderr.
• std_out - the output which was written to stdout.

Example usage

local Workflow = require "porla.Workflow"
local Exec     = require "porla.actions.Exec"

return Workflow:new{
  on      = "TorrentAdded",
  actions = {
    Exec:new{
      file = "/usr/bin/curl",
      args = {
        "https://www.google.com"
      }
    }
  }
}