cfExec

ColdFusion CFC wrappers for 91 command-line tools. Each program gets a typed CFC interface that handles execution via CFExecute, version detection, and metadata access.

Live demos and documentation are online at www.cfExec.com - browse every tool, see worked examples, and run "try it" demos in the browser.

Installation

Drop the CFCs/ directory into your project. No package manager needed.

// Quick start
curl = new CFCs.Curl();
result = curl.get(url="https://httpbin.org/get");
writeOutput(result.output);

Executables without an absolute path default to c:\cli\. Pass a custom exePath to the constructor if your tools live somewhere else.

Configuration

Each CFC constructor accepts:

Parameter	Default	What it does
exePath	Varies per tool	Full path to the executable
timeout	30	Seconds before execution times out
useCFXExec	false	Use the CFX_EXEC tag instead of cfexecute
runAsUser	(empty)	Windows username for impersonation
runAsPassword	(empty)	Password for impersonation
runAsDomain	(empty)	Domain for impersonation

Programs

Admin

Program	Description	Docs
appcmd	Used to manage IIS. ie, recycle a Windows appPool	docs
taskkill	Ends one or more tasks or processes. Processes can be ended by process ID or ...	docs
WMIC	Windows Management Instrumentation Command: Allows Windows local system admin...	docs

Archive

Program	Description	Docs
7-Zip	File archiver with a high compression ratio	docs
HTTrack	Website copier. Create a local copy of a dynamic website (basic spidering)	docs
Monolith	Save complete web pages as a single HTML file	docs

Cloud

Program	Description	Docs
Rclone	Manage files on over 70 different cloud storage products	docs
S3Express	Copy, query, backup multiple files to S3 using the Windows command line	docs
WinSCP	Open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP cl...	docs

Converter

Program	Description	Docs
html2markdown	Converts HTML to Markdown via stdin/stdout, files, or glob patterns, with Com...	docs
Pandoc	Universal document converter (over 60 document formats)	docs
WKHTMLTOPDF	Render HTML file to PDF	docs

Database

Program	Description	Docs
Database .NET	Innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool With it ...	docs
DbVisualizer	Everything you need to build, manage and maintain state-of-the-art database t...	docs
DuckDB	In-process analytical SQL database with a fast CLI for querying CSV, Parquet,...	docs
OctoSQL	Query tool that joins, analyzes, and transforms data from multiple databases ...	docs
SQLite	small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database en...	docs

File Search

Program	Description	Docs
Diskus	Computes the total size of the current directory (3-10 times faster)	docs
FD	A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'	docs
FileList	Create lists of directory contents and file properties	docs
FileLocator Pro	Fast, multi-threaded searches, supports Outlook PST/MSG searching and provide...	docs
grepWin	Regular expression search and replace for Windows	docs
HashConsole	Quickly generate more than 15 different type of hashes. (May be offline; webs...	docs
Nirsoft SearchMyFiles	Alternative to 'Search For Files And Folders' module of Windows + Duplicates ...	docs
ripgrep (rg)	Recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gi...	docs
TrID	Identify file types from their binary signatures using an extensible definiti...	docs

File System

Program	Description	Docs
Bulk Rename Command	Rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria	docs
DeleteFiles	Windows utility to delete files and folders recursively with support for deep...	docs
FastCopy	Small, exceptional tool among applications designed for file transfer operati...	docs
Find and Replace (FNR)	Find and replace text in multiple files. It can quickly search through large ...	docs
gsar (General Search and Replace)	Utility for searching for and optionally replacing strings in both text and b...	docs
Robocopy	Free file copy tool included with Windows OS	docs

Image

Program	Description	Docs
caesiumclt	Lossy/lossless image compression tool	docs
GraphicsMagick	Commandline tools for manipulating, editing, and converting raster & vector i...	docs
ImageMagick	Resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sampl...	docs
Pingo	Experimental lossless & lossy image optimizer (PNG, JPEG, WebP, APNG) designe...	docs
Tesseract OCR	Open source text recognition (OCR) Engine to extract printed text from images.	docs
WKHTMLTOIMAGE	Render HTML file to an image (part of WKHTMLTOPDF)	docs
Zint	Complete cross-platform open source barcode generating solution	docs

Metadata

Program	Description	Docs
ExifTool	Read, write & edit meta information in a wide variety of files. (Credit: Stev...	docs
Exiv2	Manage image Exif, IPTC & XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded metadata	docs
Kid3	Edit the ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags in MP3 files in an efficient way	docs
MediaInfo	Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for vi...	docs
PDFInfo	Converts PDF to HTML (Part of XPDF)	docs

Network

Program	Description	Docs
aria2	Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility.	docs
cURL	Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs	docs
CyberDuck CLI	Download, upload & copy between servers with FTP, SFTP or WebDAV.	docs
dog	DNS client, like dig.	docs
Globalping CLI	Access a global network of probes to run ping, mtr, traceroute, DNS, and HTTP...	docs
http-ping	similar to the popular ping utility, but works over HTTP/S instead of ICMP, a...	docs
Obscura	Lightweight headless browser engine written in Rust for web scraping and AI a...	docs
trurl	Command line tool for URL parsing, manipulation, and output - a companion to ...	docs
Wget	Retrieves files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols.	docs

PDF

Program	Description	Docs
Foxit Reader	Small, fast, and feature-rich PDF Reader to view, annotate, form-fill, and si...	docs
Ghostscript	Postscript and PDF interpreter/renderer	docs
PDFCPU	PDF processing library written in Go that supports encryption.	docs
PDFDetach	Extracts attached files from PDF files (Part of XPDF)	docs
PDFFonts	Lists fonts used in PDF files (Part of XPDF)	docs
PDFImages	Extracts raw images from PDF files (Part of XPDF)	docs
PDFtk Server	Server-side processing of PDF	docs
PDFToHTML	Converts PDF pages to PNG image files (Part of XPDF)	docs
PDFtoPNG	Extracts raw images from PDF files (Part of XPDF)	docs
PDFtoText	Converts PDF to text (Part of XPDF)	docs
qPDF	A content-preserving PDF document transformer	docs

Runtime

Program	Description	Docs
Adobe ColdFusion CLI	Run cfm scripts without starting the ColdFusion server. Pass absolute or posi...	docs
BoxLang	For the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) giving you tons of Object-Oriented (OO), F...	docs
CommandBox	Standalone, native and tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will provide you...	docs
Java	A free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform	docs
JCMD	Supports Java by sending diagnostic commands to running JVMs for troubleshoot...	docs
Node.js	JavaScript runtime environment	docs
Python	Programming language that lets you work quickly & integrate systems more effe...	docs
Ruby	Interpreted object-oriented programming languag	docs

Security

Program	Description	Docs
Bitwarden	Powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.	docs
Gitleaks	SAST tool that scans git repositories, files, and stdin for hardcoded secrets...	docs
SSL Labs Scan	Command-line client for the Qualys SSL Labs API that grades the SSL/TLS confi...	docs
TruffleHog	A secrets scanning tool that digs deep into your code repositories to find se...	docs

System

Program	Description	Docs
duf	Disk Usage/Free Utility	docs
Fastfetch	Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying it in a vis...	docs
PsTools PsExec	A light-weight telnet-replacement that lets you execute processes on other sy...	docs
PsTools PsKill	Terminates processes on a local or remote Windows computer	docs
SCHTASKS	Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time, ad...	docs
SysInternals SigCheck	Shows file version number, timestamp information, and digital signature detai...	docs

Text

Program	Description	Docs
cloc	Counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many ...	docs
CSVFileView	Tab-delimited file viewer and converter	docs
JQ	Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor	docs
Markdown Monster	An extensible Markdown Editor, Viewer and Weblog Publisher for Windows. Comma...	docs
Miller	Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, an...	docs
tabspace	Converts tabs to spaces or spaces to tabs automatically in files.	docs
yq	YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor	docs

stats

Program	Description	Docs
hyperfine	A command-line benchmarking tool.	docs
Tokei	Displays statistics about your code.	docs

License

MIT