<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Everyone, <br><br>I don't know if i'm doing it worng but I have an executable task that I want to kill at the end of my build.<br><br></div>It seems easy enough to start the executable using something along the lines of<br><br><span class="im"><pre><span>f</span><span>actory.</span><span>addStep</span><span>(</span><span>steps</span><span>.</span><span>ShellCommand</span><span>(</span>
              <span>command</span><span>=</span><span>["run_my_custom_executable.exe","config_file_for_executable.txt"</span><span></span><span>],</span>
              <span>logfiles</span><span>=</span><span>{</span><span>"triallog"</span><span>:</span> <span>{</span><span>"filename"</span><span>:</span> <span>"c:\\temp\\test.log"</span><span>,</span>
                   HaltOnFailure=True))<br></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I want to kill that executable, so I have tried<br><br></span><span class="im"><pre><span>f</span><span>actory.</span><span>addStep</span><span>(</span><span>steps</span><span>.</span><span>ShellCommand</span><span>(</span><span>command</span><span>=</span><span>["cmd /c taskkill /im </span><span>run_my_custom_executable.exe /f /t]))</span><span></span><br><span><span class="im"><pre></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">but no joy so far, though the command works fine when I type it directly into the Windows command shell.<br><br></span></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Also I wanted to introduce a time delay between steps so I thought I'd use the Windows timeout shell command <br><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="im"><pre><span class="im"><pre><span>f</span><span>actory.</span><span>addStep</span><span>(</span><span>steps</span><span>.</span><span>ShellCommand</span><span>(</span><span>command</span><span>=</span><span>["cmd /k timeout 30 /nobreak</span><span>]))<br><br></span><span class="im"><pre><span class="im"><pre><span><span class="im"><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">What am i missing?</span></pre></span></span></pre></span></pre></span><br></pre></span></pre></span><br>Regards<br></span></pre><pre><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></pre></span></span></pre></span></pre></span><br></div>