Personal Notes File

Execute ▶ Command

Purpose

The Execute ▶ command is used to run an external Windows program from within NOTEFILE.

Note: To use this feature, you need to have the Enable command execution option enabled. By default this option is enabled, so you can run commands. But, for security reasons you may wish to disable this option. This can be done by using the Setup... command from the File menu.

To execute a command

1. Position the insertion point to a string containing a command in your notes file or completely select the command and its parameters (if any). Please, do not select a string that spans multiple lines.
2. From the Card menu choose Execute ▶.
3. From the Execute submenu select the displayed command and the command will be executed. If you have not selected a command and there are spaces or end of lines around the insertion point, then <Nothing> will be displayed and nothing will be executed.

Some example commands are given below. Execution depends on your Windows or Linux configuration and the programs installed on your computer. Note that, if you do not select some string, an automatic selection not including spaces and end of line characters will be made.

1. https://notefile.kadifeli.com/
2. mailto:test@example.com?Subject=Testing&Body=Your_message&Bcc=bcc@example.com&Cc=cc@example.com
3. telnet://india.colorado.edu:13/
4. ftp://ftp.hp.com/
5. C:\windows
6. notepad C:\Windows\System.ini
7. readme.txt
8. eventvwr.msc
9. \\filesrv\share1

The first four commands will try to access some URLs on the Internet. These are actually Internet protocols that your operating system recognizes. On Linux, the third line may need to be replaced with something like this:

3. gnome-terminal -- telnet india.colorado.edu 13
   or
   gnome-terminal -- netcat india.colorado.edu 13

The fifth command will open Windows explorer for the given directory (if this directory is present). The sixth command will run NOTEPAD.EXE program if it is present. If you select the parameter C:\Windows\System.ini together with the command notepad, then it will be given as parameter to the notepad command. The seventh command will try to open the readme.txt file from the current directory with the system’s default text editor. The eighth command will run Windows Event Viewer. The ninth command will try to browse a directory on another server on your local area network.

On a Linux environment, the following similar commands to the above may be used:

5. nautilus /boot
   or just
   /boot
6. gedit /etc/lsb-release
7. readme.txt
8. gnome-logs
9. smb://filesrv/share1

Other usage examples:

10. man:ls (only Linux)
11. tel:555-1234567

Keyboard shortcut

F9

Error messages

Error running: ... Some system error message

When the command you are trying to execute cannot be run by the operating system, you will get this error message. The last line of the message may give you a clue of what the real problem is.

On Linux, you may not get any error message at all. For error or information messages; please, look at NOTEFILE’s stderr output if it was started from command line; otherwise check the /var/log/syslog file or the output of the journalctl -f command.