After debugging, the root cause is the shell.init.script couldn't be found with the default property in the system.properties
{code} # # Location of a shell script that will be run when starting a shell # session. This script can be used to create aliases and define # additional commands. # Do not use absolute paths to avoid problems on windows. # karaf.shell.init.script = etc/shell.init.script,etc/scripts/*.script {code} the absolute path doesn't work on windows so by default it's using relative path, but FileNotFound will be thrown from org.apache.karaf.shell.ssh.ShellCommand.executeScript() when try to connect to karaf using client/client.bat/ssh. The workarount I found is adding "karaf.exec.init.script" property together with "karaf.shell.init.script" in the system.properties {code} karaf.exec.init.script = ${karaf.etc}/shell.init.script {code} Also the default shell.init.script need to be clean up a bit, otherwize, some shell scripts lines can't be parsed/executed. I think the logical in the org.apache.karaf.shell.ssh.ShellCommand class should be synced with the org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.ConsoleSessionImpl class. Regards. Xilai ________________________________ From: XiLai Dai <xl...@talend.com> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:55:31 PM To: user@karaf.apache.org Subject: Re: Fail to execute macro-command e.g. la by client with karaf 4.1.0 JB, yes, exactly, it's only about aliases commands defined in the etc/shell.init.script. ________________________________ From: Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:44:56 PM To: user@karaf.apache.org Subject: Re: Fail to execute macro-command e.g. la by client with karaf 4.1.0 Hi Xilai, I guess that client.bat "bundle:list" works ? I suspect something about the aliases. Regards JB On 02/27/2017 08:50 AM, XiLai Dai wrote: > Hi, > > > On karaf 4.1.0, the macro-commands defined in the etc/shell.init.script > failed to execute from client/client.bat. > > > For example even with the "la" command: > > G:\download\apache-karaf-4.1.0\bin>client.bat -h localhost -u karaf "la" > Logging in as karaf > Password: > Command not found: la > G:\download\apache-karaf-4.1.0\bin> > > > Any changes should be made in the ACL configuration? or is this a bug on > 4.1.0? > > > Thanks > > Xilai > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré jbono...@apache.org http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com