vTextShellBG
Launch a command-line shell task in the background via bmd.executebg() The "Wait" checkbox can be used to make the node act in a blocking fashion that will pause the rendering of this branch of the comp until the launched process has completed and exited. Note: Make sure to write in the absolute filepath for the executable program you want to run. You can discover this by typing "which SomeProgramName" into the Terminal window on macOS/Linux: which open /usr/bin/open Also, the vTextShellBG node is used to launch a program with its command line arguments specified. It is not a full terminal environment so shell redirection approaches and expanding environment variable tokens in the command string are not supported. If you need those extended command line scripting features, write out a temporary .bat/.sh/.command file to disk then use vTextShellBG to run the script.
Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File | Text | — | — |
| Wait | Integer | 1.0 | — |