Open a command line from a program in windows/osx

[Bobby]

I have a program that will run a simple psychology experiment in windows/osx. The data are saved in .txt files. I'd like to have these files automatically upload to a server via FTP.  

Previous posts suggest it is easiest to do such FTP transfers via the command line, but I can't see an obvious way to open a new command line from my windows/OSX program and write to it. 

Could anybody give me an example of how to do this? In case it is relevant, my program is built as an OpenFL project.

[Ashiq A.]

http://api.haxe.org/sys/io/Process.html if you need to capture output

Otherwise, you can try http://api.haxe.org/Sys.html#command

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[Bobby]

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to work as I'd hoped. Command is printed to the same output as the current process. What I need is a way to open up a separate command line prompt and write commands to it.

[Ashiq A.]

Did you try Sys.io.process?

[Bobby]

Yes - apparently it can't be called (i.e. I don't understand how to use it to open the command line, or any other program).

Could you give a specific example of how you would implement this? The documentation isn't very thorough so I don't see how it would be implemented.

Also, thank you so much for your responses! It looks like the capability is there, it's just a case of getting an example and adapting it to my needs.

[Ashiq A.]

I don't have much experience with Haxe, sorry. I don't have a working example I can show you.

Documentation is generally scarce. You can experiment and see how it works.

[Bobby]

No worries - talking to you is helping me work through the possibilities, so thanks!

[Bobby]

And thanks to your suggestions I've managed to get this working - thanks so much!

for future reference: var p = new Process("calc", []);

[Cristian Baluta]

On osx you can use applescript to do stuffs. Apparently this opens a new window

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to do script \"cd $pwd; clear\"" > /dev/null

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[Justin L Mills]

I believe you can use the enhanced std library found here without direct
use of terminal.
https://github.com/MarcWeber/haxe-std/blob/master/std/mtwin/net/Ftp.hx

An old example can be found here:
http://old.haxe.org/com/libs/mtwin/net/ftp

For general file reading and writting maybe my search and replace
experiment helps, if you have not already worked that bit out.
https://github.com/Justinfront/SearchReplaceText

Best

Justin