[Swift-devel] New built-in system, request for comments

[Ketan Maheshwari]

Is it possible to handle stdout and/or stderr of system("command")
separately? That way, it might be useful in other places as well.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Yadu Nand <yadudoc1729 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just added a new builtin "system" to trunk. It takes a string,
> which is executed in the shell
> by java and the results are returned as an array. This is done to make
> mappings easier, for example,
> you can map an entire folder "foo" using the following :
>
> file folder[ ] < array_mapper; files = system ("find foo -type f") >;
>
> If the execution of the string provided fails, the logger would report
> the the exitcode and stderr to
> the swift stdout.
>
> Thanks,
> Yadu Nand B
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