Konfabulator provides two very useful functions which allow you execute to Unix commands; runCommand() and runCommandInBg(). On the Mac platform you can use any command that you could use in a terminal window. On Windows you are a little more limited because unlike on the Mac platform Windows doesn't natively understand Unix commands but fortunately Pixoria (now Yahoo) have packaged a number of the most commonly used Unix commands to the Windows version of Konfabulator. The commands which can be used on both platforms are: runCommand(string); runCommandInBg(string, tag);