Re: two easy ones

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 8:45:37 +0100
> 
> hey guys,
> 
> first, can I return the date using guile? (the system "date"
> command doesn't count :-)

guile> (current-time)
983776441
guile> (localtime (current-time))
#(6 14 8 5 2 101 1 63 0 -3600 "CET")
guile> (strftime "%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S %Z" (localtime (current-time)))
"2001-03-05:08:14:34 CET"

> and, how, from guile, can I call a script from another language
> and then use the result? (I'm stuck on the "using the result"
> part...)

guile> (use-modules (ice-9 popen))
guile> (define p (open-input-pipe "ls -l"))
guile> (read-line p)
"total 1995"
guile> (read-line p)
"-rw-r--r--    1 mgrabmue mgrabmue     3989 Dec 23 18:27 ANON-CVS"
guile> (read-line p)
"-rw-r--r--    1 mgrabmue mgrabmue     2985 Mar 14  2000 AUTHORS"

HTH,
  'martin