Method Process.popen()
- Method popen
string popen(string command)
- Description
Executes command as a shell statement ("
/bin/sh -c command
" for Unix, "cmd /c command
" for Windows), waits until it has finished and returns the result as a string.- See also
- Method popen
Stdio.FILE popen(string command, string mode)
- Description
Open a "process" for reading or writing. The command is executed as a shell statement ("
/bin/sh -c command
" for Unix, "cmd /c command
" for Windows). The parameter mode should be one of the following letters:"r" Open for reading. Data written by the process to stdout is available for read.
"w" Open for writing. Data written to the file is available to the process on stdin.
- See also