Re: [Help-smalltalk] call shell commands; synchronous return

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stephen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The method I've been using for submitting shell commands is asynchronous...
>
> For example:-
>     shellCmd := '<long running shell command here>'.
>     pipe := FileStream popen: shellCmd dir: FileStream read.
>
> pipe returns after about a second no matter how long the shell command 
> takes to complete.
>
> Is there a way to call shell commands in a synchronous fashion?

Smalltalk system: 'abc'

Paolo