Re: Retrieve output from command

[Dale P. Smith]

"Dale P. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Manuel Giraud wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get the result of the command "ls" in a list, for
> > example :
> >         (define l (system->list "ls"))
> >
> > I've tried 'system' but it doesn't work since it returns the exit code
> > of the command. Maybe, I will be able to do that using port, but maybe
> > there's already a library to do such things.
> 
> Try something like:
> 
> (use-modules (ice-9 popen))
> 
> (define foo (open-input-pipe "ls")
> (read foo)
> (read foo)
> (close-pipe foo)

Also look at http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ttn-pers-scheme/
for shell-command-to-string.scm

-Dale
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Dale P. Smith
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Senior Systems Consultant, Altus Technologies Corporation
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