Re: Retrieve output from command

[Manuel Giraud]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

>    From: Manuel Giraud <address@hidden>
>    Date: 31 Jul 2001 17:43:45 +0200
> 
>    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.
> 
> see http://www.glug.org/people/ttn/software/ttn-pers-scheme/
> 
> look for module `(ttn shell-command-to-string)' which includes
> `shell-command->string' and `shell-command->list'.
> 

Thanks for answers! Since I'm bit lazy I think that using some already
written and modularized code is a good idea.

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