From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shell commands with output to string
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:20:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tucryzdg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280eba0-81c0-6e7b-d512-bbd1f83a409c@posteo.de>
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Hi Zelphir,
I think you want to be using the popen / pipe procedures for this. See
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.2/guile-ref/Pipes.html
for the chapter in the manual.
Hope this helps :)
Alex
Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> writes:
> Corrections below.
>
> On 2/22/22 10:29, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
>> Hello Guile users!
>>
>> How would I run a shell command from inside Guile and get its output
>> as a string, instead of the output being outputted directly? (Guile
>> 3.0.8)
>>
>> So far I have found
>>
>> ~~~~
>> (system ...)
>> ~~~~
>>
>> which I tried to use with
>>
>> ~~~~
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (with-output-to-string
>> (system "ls -al"))
>>
>> ;; lots of output immediately shown and not stored in variable
>>
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> Wrong type to apply: 0
>>
>> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,bt
>> In ice-9/ports.scm:
>> 476:4 2 (with-output-to-string 0)
>> While executing meta-command:
>> In procedure frame-local-ref: Argument 2 out of range: 1
>> ~~~~
>>
>> But this does not give me a string back.
>>
>> I also tried with
>>
>> ~~~~
>> scheme@(guile-user)> (call-with-values (lambda () (system "ls -al"))
>> ... (lambda (exit-code output) output))
>>
>> ;; lots of output immediately shown
>>
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> Wrong number of values returned to continuation (expected 2)
>>
>> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
>>
>> scheme@(guile-user) [1]> ,bt
>> In current input:
>> 10:29 1 (_)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>> ~~~~
>>
>> Is there another function I should be using?
>>
>> I would like to have the exit code and the output of a command.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Zelphir
>
> Of course I should use `with-output-to-string` correctly:
>
> ~~~~
> scheme@(guile-user)> (with-output-to-string
> (lambda () (system "ls -al")))
> ;; directly outputted stuff
> $1 = ""
> ~~~~
>
> But still not a win.
>
> Regards,
> Zelphir
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-22 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-22 9:29 Shell commands with output to string Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-02-22 9:38 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-02-22 10:20 ` Alex Sassmannshausen [this message]
2022-02-22 10:43 ` post
2022-02-23 14:01 ` Josselin Poiret
2022-03-08 23:12 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-03-09 14:14 ` Josselin Poiret
2022-02-22 11:20 ` Neil Jerram
2022-02-23 1:28 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-02-23 1:29 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-02-22 10:21 ` tomas
2022-02-22 14:27 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2022-02-22 16:00 ` Leo Butler
2022-02-22 16:33 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2022-02-23 1:26 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-02-23 14:13 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
2022-02-26 0:32 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
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2022-02-23 17:48 Blake Shaw
2022-02-23 18:25 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
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