Cfexecute issue, help needed

Trying to run this command. which produces in a terminal in debian free memory , example value: 976

free -m | grep ^Mem | tr -s ’ ’ | cut -d ’ ’ -f 2

Using cfexecute:

<cfexecute name = "/usr/bin/free" 
arguments = " -m | grep ^Mem | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 "
variable="totalmemory" timeout = "10">
</cfexecute>

It generates this error:

Error invoking external process
Detail: free: seconds argument failed: '|': Invalid argument

Anyone know why I would get that error and how can I overcome it.

Run the command as a bash script versus directly trying to execute the program.

I’ll try that. that is a really good idea. Thanks for suggesting that.

That worked great. Thanks a bunch for that suggestion.

To expand on why was not working – I don’t think cfexecute supports pipes | - when you pipe a command you are creating multiple processes.

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You would need to make your executable file be bash itself (/bin/sh) and then pass the whole thing as a command. Which is more less what you’re doing when you just execute a shell script. This is how the “run” command in CommandBox operates.

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