Re: Retrieve output from command

[Dale P. Smith]

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)

-Dale
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