RE: [Jython-users] How do I process a shell command and grab stdout for text processing?

[brian z. <bz...@zi...>]

> 
> This was a big let down for me too. I saw a module called 
> jnios but that doesn't seem to be maintained any more. I 
> searched google for the reason and figured out that the 
> reason for this is because Java does not support pipes. 
> Wouldn't it be possible to emulate popen with 
> Process.getRunTime().exec()? I guess there's a good reason 
> why that's not done yet; I'd like to know the reason :-).
> 

The primary reason is because no one has gotten around to it.  Ant, the
Java equivalent of make, does an adequate job of capturing output so I'd
think Jython could too.  I've threatened to write it a couple of times
but I either run out of time or work on something more pressing.

thanks,

brian