Re: [Jscheme-user] capture command output in string?

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

That worked perfectly.  Thank you, Sir!  --Geoffrey

On Apr 22, 2006, at 22:13, Timothy John Hickey wrote:

> You need to create a StringWriter object w,
> wrap it in a PrinterWriter object p, and pass that object as the  
> second parameter to the "out" method.
> Invoking .toString on the w object will give you your string....
>
> Here's an example...
>
> > (define w (java.io.StringWriter.))
>
> > (out (run (cmd (ls -l "."))) (java.io.PrintWriter. w))
> 0
> > (display (.toString w))
> total 155416
> drwx------  45 tim  tim      1530 22 Apr 09:56 Desktop
> drwx------  67 tim  tim      2278 18 Apr 07:58 Documents
> drwx------  44 tim  tim      1496 10 Apr 17:47 Library
> drwx------   6 tim  tim       204  1 Apr 19:49 Movies
> drwx------   5 tim  tim       170 30 Jan  2005 Music
> drwx------   4 tim  tim       136  7 Jan 20:08 Pictures
> ---snip---