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run command line tool on content?

targa2000 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:35:50 GMT

is there a way to run Windows or Linux command line tools on the content? to convert or process content?

Re: run command line tool on content?

mdutoo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:39:29 GMT

Hi Targa

It's much more efficient to code such content processing in a webscript that will use all of Alfresco powerful content processing features. Though if you want to use existing Windows or Linux command line tools (awk…), Alfresco ships with such a CLI wrapper (used with Image Magick for image transformations), but there's some coding to do.

What kind of command line tools would you like to run on content exactly ?

Regards,
Marc

Re: run command line tool on content?

targa2000 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:57:41 GMT

I needed to parse fields from a .doc Word file. I tried to convert file to .txt using Alfresco, but not too happy with results. Considering using other tools, but most of these are command line tools.

Re: run command line tool on content?

zaizi — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:59:19 GMT

Take a look at Alfresco Content Transformation service: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Transformations. Some of them do use command line tools to convert between document formats. You can configure a custom transformation and call this from within Alfresco.