Usage: EXEC <shell commands>
EXEC -NAME <name> <shell commands>
EXEC -OUT [%<process id>|<shell commands]
EXEC -MSG <nickname> [%<process id>|<shell commands>]
EXEC -NOTICE <nickname> [%<process id>|<shell commands>]
EXEC -IN %<process id> <text to send to process>
EXEC -WINDOW [%<process id>|<shell commands>]
EXEC -<signal> %<process id>
EXEC -CLOSE %<process id>
EXEC -TARGET [<shell commands]
EXEC -FILTER <funcname> <shell commands>

EXEC allows you to start subprocesses in ScrollZ and manipulate
them in various ways. You can start multiple subprocesses
simultaneously and access them via a process number assigned
by ScrollZ. You can list all currently running subprocesses by
using EXEC with no parameters. The process id of a process
is the number assigned by ScrollZ for that process, or the
name of the process given by the -NAME flag. If a NAME is
given to a process, that name may be used anyway in place of
the process number assigned by ScrollZ.

The first form of EXEC will simply start a subprocess and send
it's output to your display.

The second form tells ScrollZ to send the output of the process
to your current channel. For example:
EXEC -OUT ls
sends the output of ls to your channel.
EXEC -OUT %1
tells ScrollZ to send the output of subprocess 1 to your channel.
Subprocess 1 must exist already by a previous call to EXEC.

The third form is much like the second, except that it sends
to the specified nickname or nicknames (the format of the
nicknames is the same as for MSG). As with the second form,
you can start a subprocess with -MSG, or you can change an
already running process to send it's output to the given nicknames.

The fourth form is identical to the first, except the messages
are send as NOTICEs not as PRIVMSG's.

The fifth form lets you send a line of input to a running
subprocess. For example:
EXEC -IN %shell This is a test.
Sends "This is a test." to subprocess 0. This processes must
have previously been started with a call to EXEC -NAME shell.
An alternate method of sending text to processes is using the
MSG or QUERY command. In the place of a nickname, you may
specify %n, when n is a current running processes id. For
example:
MSG %shell This is a test.
is equivalent to the previous example.

The sixth form lets you specify that you want all output from
the process to go to the current window. Normally, output
from processes goes to whichever window has a level setting of
CRAP. This locks the output into the current window.
EXEC -WINDOW %1
Sends the output of process 1 to the current window.

The seventh form lets you send various signals to subprocesses.
The allowable signals are:
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP IOT EMT
FPE KILL BUS SEGV SYS PIPE ALRM
TERM URG STOP TSTP CONT CHLD TTIN
TTOU IO XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH
LOST USR1 USR2
What these signals do depends on the process running, etc.
EXEC -KILL %0
Sends a KILL signal to process 0, forcing it to exit
immediately. If you want to read more about these signals, do
a "man kill" at your shell prompt.

The eigth form is for really ornery processes that simply won't
die. Sometimes this is because an EXEC'd process has forked
off subprocesses which don't die when you use -KILL (or other
flag). Doing a:
EXEC -CLOSE %0
closes all of ScrollZ's connections to that processes. This means
that even if the processes is still sending output you won't see
it. This also means (in most cases) that the process will be
killed by a SIGPIPE when it tries to send to ScrollZ.

The ninth form sends it's output to whatever the current $T
points to:
EXEC -TARGET

The tenth form uses a filter function to handle the output
from the command. Example:
EXEC -FILTER method ./prog $0-
Would call $method() for every line of output the ./prog
causes. The $method() would get the line as parameters.
If the function returns value, the first word of the
exec output line will be stripped away and the rest
will be appended to the return value and the result
executed as a command.
This is very useful if $method() is a function returning
a command and ./prog outputs the recipient nickname as
the first word on every line.
/on exec could also be used, but it does not work right
if you work on multiple servers at the same time.
NOTE: If the program outputs lines longer than the ScrollZ
line length limit is, the lines are handled as if they
were split, and this may not work expectedly. Be careful.

Note that unless EXEC_PROTECTION is set to OFF, the /EXEC
command is not available while a /ON hook is executing. See the
SET EXEC_PROTECTION help page for more information about
this feature.

See Also:
SET SHELL
SET SHELL_FLAGS
SET SHELL_LIMIT
SET NOTIFY_ON_TERMINATION
SET EXEC_PROTECTION

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