Pervasive DI 10 "Shell" function with redirection characters

Although the Pervasive DI 10 documentation states that using the "cmd /c" directive is only necessary when executing a .bat file, it should be noted that when using special characters in a command, one must also use the "cmd /c" directive. Even when calling EXEs.

EZ Script example:

Wrong:

Shell("ipconfig > myIpAddress.txt")


Right

Shell("cmd /c ipconfig > myIpAddress.txt")


Apparently, this is because the Shell function (and the Application step) are subject to unexpected behavior when dealing with redirection characters such as | (pipe), < or >

An example of code that uses 2 of these characters:

Shell("cmd /c fciv.exe data.xml | find "."xml"" > data.xml.md5")