With SFTP and SCP protocols, executes arbitrary remote shell command. With FTP protocol, executes a protocol command.

call <command>

With SFTP protocol, that does not allow execution of arbitrary remote command, separate shell session will be automatically opened.

The command must not require user input.

It is an error, if the command has any error output, but no standard output. To circumvent that redirect error output to nul (2>/dev/null) or to standard output (2>&1).

Alias: !

XML log element: call

call mysqldump --opt -u USERNAME --password=PASSWORD --all-databases > all_databases.sql
call gzip -c all_databases.sql > all_databases.gz