http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Execute_a_System_Command
Contents
- 1 Ada
- 2 Aikido
- 3 Aime
- 4 ALGOL 68
- 5 AppleScript
- 6 AutoHotkey
- 7 AWK
- 8 BASIC
- 9 BBC BASIC
- 10 Bracmat
- 11 Brat
- 12 Brlcad
- 13 C
- 14 C++
- 15 C#
- 16 Clojure
- 17 CMake
- 18 Common Lisp
- 19 D
- 20 dc
- 21 DCL
- 22 Delphi
- 23 E
- 24 Erlang
- 25 Factor
- 26 Fantom
- 27 Forth
- 28 Fortran
- 29 Go
- 30 gnuplot
- 31 GUISS
- 32 Haskell
- 33 HicEst
- 34 Icon and Unicon
- 35 IDL
- 36 Io
- 37 J
- 38 Java
- 39 JavaScript
- 40 Joy
- 41 K
- 42 Liberty BASIC
- 43 Locomotive Basic
- 44 Logo
- 45 Lua
- 46 M4
- 47 Make
- 48 Mathematica
- 49 MATLAB
- 50 Maxima
- 51 MAXScript
- 52 Mercury
- 53 Modula-2
- 54 Modula-3
- 55 MUMPS
- 56 Objective-C
- 57 OCaml
- 58 Octave
- 59 Oz
- 60 PARI/GP
- 61 Pascal
- 62 Perl
- 63 Perl 6
- 64 PHP
- 65 PicoLisp
- 66 Pike
- 67 Pop11
- 68 PowerShell
- 69 Prolog
- 70 PureBasic
- 71 Python
- 72 R
- 73 Raven
- 74 REBOL
- 75 REXX
- 76 Ruby
- 77 Run BASIC
- 78 Scala
- 79 Scheme
- 80 Seed7
- 81 Slate
- 82 Smalltalk
- 83 Standard ML
- 84 Tcl
- 85 Toka
- 86 TUSCRIPT
- 87 UNIX Shell
- 88 Ursala
- 89 Vedit macro language
- 90 Visual Basic
- 91 ZX Spectrum Basic
Ada
Using the IEEE POSIX Ada standard, P1003.5c:
with POSIX.Unsafe_Process_Primitives; procedure Execute_A_System_Command is Arguments : POSIX.POSIX_String_List; begin POSIX.Append (Arguments, "ls"); POSIX.Unsafe_Process_Primitives.Exec_Search ("ls", Arguments); end Execute_A_System_Command;
Importing the C system() function:
with Interfaces.C; use Interfaces.C; procedure Execute_System is function Sys (Arg : Char_Array) return Integer; pragma Import(C, Sys, "system"); Ret_Val : Integer; begin Ret_Val := Sys(To_C("ls")); end Execute_System;
Using the GNAT run-time library:
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; with System.OS_Lib; use System.OS_Lib; procedure Execute_Synchronously is Result : Integer; Arguments : Argument_List := ( 1=> new String'("cmd.exe"), 2=> new String'("/C dir c:\temp\*.adb") ); begin Spawn ( Program_Name => "cmd.exe", Args => Arguments, Output_File_Descriptor => Standout, Return_Code => Result ); for Index in Arguments'Range loop Free (Arguments (Index)); -- Free the argument list end loop; end Execute_Synchronously;
[edit]Aikido
The simplest way to do this is using the system()
function. It returns a vector of strings (the output from the command).
var lines = system ("ls") foreach line lines { println (line) }
If you don't want to process the output you can use the exec
function. It writes the output to the standard output stream by default;
exec ("ls")
You also have the regular fork
and execv
calls available:
var pid = fork() if (pid == 0) { var args = ["/bin/ls"] execv ("/bin/ls", args) exit(1) } var status = 0 waitpid (pid, status)
[edit]Aime
sshell ss; b_cast(ss_path(ss), "/bin/ls"); lf_p_text(ss_argv(ss), "ls"); o_text(ss_link(ss));
[edit]ALGOL 68
system("ls")
Or the classic "!" shell escape can be implemented as an "!" operator:
OP ! = (STRING cmd)BOOL: system(cmd) = 0; IF ! "touch test.tmp" ANDF ( ! "ls test.tmp" ANDF ! "rm test.tmp" ) THEN print (("test.tmp now gone!", new line)) FI
[edit]AppleScript
do shell script "ls" without altering line endings
[edit]AutoHotkey
Run, %comspec% /k dir & pause
[edit]AWK
BEGIN { system("ls") }
[edit]BASIC
SHELL "dir"
[edit]BBC BASIC
On Acorn computers the *CAT command catalogues the current directory, the equivalent of the Unix ls command or the DOS/Windows dir command. The BBC BASIC OSCLI command passes a string to the Command Line Interpreter to execute a system command, it is the equivalent of C's system() command.
OSCLI "CAT"
With BBC BASIC for Windows you can execute the Windows dir command:
OSCLI "*dir":REM *dir to bypass BB4W's built-in dir command
And if running BBC BASIC on a Unix host, you can execute the ls command:
OSCLI "ls"
[edit]Bracmat
sys$dir
[edit]Brat
include :subprocess p subprocess.run :ls #Lists files in directory
[edit]Brlcad
exec ls
[edit]C
ISO C & POSIX:
#include <stdlib.h> int main() { system("ls"); return 0; }
[edit]C++
system("pause");
[edit]C#
Using Windows / .NET:
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace Execute
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Process.Start("cmd.exe", "/c dir");
}
}
}
using System;
class Execute {
static void Main() {
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.EnableRaisingEvents=false;
proc.StartInfo.FileName="ls";
proc.Start();
}
}
[edit]Clojure
(.. Runtime getRuntime (exec "cmd /C dir"))
user=> (use '[clojure.java.shell :only [sh]]) user=> (sh "ls" "-aul") {:exit 0, :out total 64 drwxr-xr-x 11 zkim staff 374 Jul 5 13:21 . drwxr-xr-x 25 zkim staff 850 Jul 5 13:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 12 zkim staff 408 Jul 5 13:02 .git -rw-r--r-- 1 zkim staff 13 Jul 5 13:02 .gitignore -rw-r--r-- 1 zkim staff 12638 Jul 5 13:02 LICENSE.html -rw-r--r-- 1 zkim staff 4092 Jul 5 13:02 README.md drwxr-xr-x 2 zkim staff 68 Jul 5 13:15 classes drwxr-xr-x 5 zkim staff 170 Jul 5 13:15 lib -rw-r--r--@ 1 zkim staff 3396 Jul 5 13:03 pom.xml -rw-r--r--@ 1 zkim staff 367 Jul 5 13:15 project.clj drwxr-xr-x 4 zkim staff 136 Jul 5 13:15 src , :err }
user=> (use '[clojure.java.shell :only [sh]]) user=> (println (:out (sh "cowsay" "Printing a command-line output"))) _________________________________ < Printing a command-line output. > --------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || nil
[edit]CMake
execute_process(COMMAND ls)
Because of a quirk in the implementation (cmExecuteProcessCommand.cxx andProcessUNIX.c), CMake diverts the standard output to a pipe. The effect is like runningls | cat
in the shell. The ls process inherits the original standard input and standard error, but receives a new pipe for standard output. CMake then reads this pipe and copies all data to the original standard output.
execute_process() can also chain commands in a pipeline, and capture output.
# Calculate pi to 40 digits after the decimal point. execute_process( COMMAND printf "scale = 45; 4 * a(1) + 5 / 10 ^ 41\\n" COMMAND bc -l COMMAND sed -e "s/.\\{5\\}$//" OUTPUT_VARIABLE pi OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE) message(STATUS "pi is ${pi}")
-- pi is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841972
[edit]Common Lisp
(with-output-to-string (stream) (extensions:run-program "ls" nil :output stream))
(system:call-system "ls")
(trivial-shell:shell-command "ls")
[edit]D
Note that this does not return the output of the command, other than the return value. That functionality can be accomplished via a call to shell().
std.process.system("ls");
[edit]dc
! ls
[edit]DCL
Directory
Or, shorter
dir
[edit]Delphi
program ExecuteSystemCommand;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses Windows, ShellApi;
begin
ShellExecute(0, nil, 'cmd.exe', ' /c dir', nil, SW_HIDE);
end.
[edit]E
def ls := makeCommand("ls") ls("-l") def [results, _, _] := ls.exec(["-l"]) when (results) -> { def [exitCode, out, err] := results print(out) } catch problem { print(`failed to execute ls: $problem`) }
[edit]Erlang
os:cmd("ls").
[edit]Factor
"ls" run-process wait-for-process
[edit]Fantom
The Process class handles creating and running external processes. in/out/err streams can be redirected, but default to the usual stdin/stdout/stderr. So following program prints result of 'ls' to the command line:
class Main { public static Void main () { p := Process (["ls"]) p.run } }
[edit]Forth
s" ls" system
[edit]Fortran
The SYSTEM subroutine (and function) are a GNU extension.
program SystemTest call system("ls") end program SystemTest
[edit]Go
package main import "fmt" import "os/exec" func main() { cmd := exec.Command("ls", "-l") output, err := cmd.Output() if (err != nil) { fmt.Println(err) return } fmt.Print(string(output)) }
[edit]gnuplot
!ls
[edit]GUISS
Start,Programs,Accessories,MSDOS Prompt,Type:dir[enter]
[edit]Haskell
import System.Cmd main = system "ls"
See also: the System.Process module
[edit]HicEst
SYSTEM(CoMmand='pause') SYSTEM(CoMmand='dir & pause')
[edit]Icon andUnicon
The code below selects the 'ls' or 'dir' command at runtime based on the UNIX feature.
procedure main() write("Trying command ",cmd := if &features == "UNIX" then "ls" else "dir") system(cmd) end
Unicon extends system to allow specification of files and a wait/nowait parameter as in the examples below.
pid := system(command_string,&input,&output,&errout,"wait") pid := system(command_string,&input,&output,&errout,"nowait")
[edit]IDL
$ls
Will execute "ls" with output to the screen.
spawn,"ls",result
will execute it and store the result in the string array "result".
spawn,"ls",unit=unit
will execute it asynchronously and direct any output from it into the LUN "unit" from whence it can be read at any (later) time.
[edit]Io
System runCommand("ls") stdout println
[edit]J
The system command interface in J is provided by the standard "task" script:
load'task' NB. Execute a command and wait for it to complete shell 'dir' NB. Execute a command but don't wait for it to complete fork 'notepad' NB. Execute a command and capture its stdout stdout =: shell 'dir' NB. Execute a command, provide it with stdin, NB. and capture its stdout stdin =: 'blahblahblah' stdout =: stdin spawn 'grep blah'
[edit]Java
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.*;
public class Program {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /C dir");//Windows command, use "ls -oa" for UNIX
Scanner sc = new Scanner(p.getInputStream());
while (sc.hasNext()) System.out.println(sc.nextLine());
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
There are two ways to run system commands. The simple way, which will hang the JVM (I would be interested in some kind of reason). -- this happens because the the inputStream buffer fills up and blocks until it gets read. Moving your .waitFor after reading the InputStream would fix your issue (as long as your error stream doesn't fill up)
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
public class MainEntry {
public static void main(String[] args) {
executeCmd("ls -oa");
}
private static void executeCmd(String string) {
InputStream pipedOut = null;
try {
Process aProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(string);
aProcess.waitFor();
pipedOut = aProcess.getInputStream();
byte buffer[] = new byte[2048];
int read = pipedOut.read(buffer);
// Replace following code with your intends processing tools
while(read >= 0) {
System.out.write(buffer, 0, read);
read = pipedOut.read(buffer);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
ie.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if(pipedOut != null) {
try {
pipedOut.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}
}
}
And the right way, which uses threading to read the InputStream given by the process.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
public class MainEntry {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// the command to execute
executeCmd("ls -oa");
}
private static void executeCmd(String string) {
InputStream pipedOut = null;
try {
Process aProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(string);
// These two thread shall stop by themself when the process end
Thread pipeThread = new Thread(new StreamGobber(aProcess.getInputStream()));
Thread errorThread = new Thread(new StreamGobber(aProcess.getErrorStream()));
pipeThread.start();
errorThread.start();
aProcess.waitFor();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException ie) {
ie.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
//Replace the following thread with your intends reader
class StreamGobber implements Runnable {
private InputStream Pipe;
public StreamGobber(InputStream pipe) {
if(pipe == null) {
throw new NullPointerException("bad pipe");
}
Pipe = pipe;
}
public void run() {
try {
byte buffer[] = new byte[2048];
int read = Pipe.read(buffer);
while(read >= 0) {
System.out.write(buffer, 0, read);
read = Pipe.read(buffer);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if(Pipe != null) {
try {
Pipe.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
}
}
}
}
[edit]JavaScript
JavaScript does not have any facilities to interact with the OS. However, host environments can provide this ability.
var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
shell.run("cmd /c dir & pause");
runCommand("cmd", "/c", "dir", "d:\\");
print("===");
var options = {
// can specify arguments here in the options object
args: ["/c", "dir", "d:\\"],
// capture stdout to the options.output property
output: ''
};
runCommand("cmd", options);
print(options.output);
[edit]Joy
"ls" system.
[edit]K
Execute "ls"
\ls
Execute "ls" and capture the output in the variable "r":
r: 4:"ls"
[edit]Liberty BASIC
drive1$ = left$(Drives$,1) run "cmd.exe /";drive1$;" dir & pause"
[edit]Locomotive Basic
The Amstrad CPC464 uses a ROM based basic interpreter, so every statement within the program is a system command. If a command without a line number is typed, whilst the computer is in a ready state, the command gets executed immediately. There is no pause command, so in this example, we use the list command (which exhibits totally different behaviour to a pause command):
LIST
[edit]Logo
The lines of output of the SHELL command are returned as a list.
print first butfirst shell [ls -a] ; ..
[edit]Lua
-- just executing the command os.execute("ls") -- to execute and capture the output, use io.popen local f = io.popen("ls") -- store the output in a "file" print( f:read("*a") ) -- print out the "file"'s content
[edit]M4
syscmd(ifdef(`__windows__',`dir',`ls'))
[edit]Make
make can use system command in either definition of variables or in the targets
in definition
contents=$(shell cat foo) curdir=`pwd`
in target
mytarget: cat foo | grep mytext
[edit]Mathematica
Run["ls"]
[edit]MATLAB
To execute system commands in MATLAB, use the "system" keyword.
Sample Usage:
>> system('PAUSE') Press any key to continue . . . ans = 0
[edit]Maxima
system("dir > list.txt")$
[edit]MAXScript
dosCommand "pause"
[edit]Mercury
:- module execute_sys_cmd. :- interface. :- import_module io. :- pred main(io::di, io::uo) is det. :- implementation. main(!IO) :- io.call_system("ls", _Result, !IO).
[edit]Modula-2
MODULE tri; FROM SYSTEM IMPORT ADR; FROM SysLib IMPORT system; IMPORT TextIO, InOut, ASCII; VAR fd : TextIO.File; ch : CHAR; PROCEDURE SystemCommand (VAR command : ARRAY OF CHAR) : BOOLEAN; BEGIN IF system (ADR (command) ) = 0 THEN RETURN TRUE ELSE RETURN FALSE END END SystemCommand; BEGIN IF SystemCommand ("ls -1 tri.mod | ") = TRUE THEN InOut.WriteString ("No error reported.") ELSE InOut.WriteString ("Error reported!") END; LOOP InOut.Read (ch); InOut.Write (ch); IF ch < ' ' THEN EXIT END END; InOut.WriteLn; InOut.WriteBf END tri.
[edit]Modula-3
This code requires the UNSAFE
keyword because M3toC
deals with C strings (which are pointers), and are implemented in Modula-3 asUNTRACED
, meaning they are not garbage collected, which is why the code callsFreeCopiedS()
.
Also note the EVAL
keyword, which ignores the return value of a function.
UNSAFE MODULE Exec EXPORTS Main; IMPORT Unix, M3toC; VAR command := M3toC.CopyTtoS("ls"); BEGIN EVAL Unix.system(command); M3toC.FreeCopiedS(command); END Exec.
[edit]MUMPS
ANSI MUMPS doesn't allow access to the operating system except possibly through the View command and $View function, both of which are implementation specific. Intersystems' Caché does allow you to create processes with the $ZF function, and if the permissions for the Caché process allow it you can perform operating system commands.
In Caché on OpenVMS in an FILES-11 filesystem ODS-5 mode this could work:
Set X=$ZF(-1,"DIR")
In GT.M on OpenVMS, the following will work:
ZSY "DIR"
GT.M on UNIX is the same:
ZSY "ls"
Note: $ZF in GT.M is Unicode version of $F[ind].
[edit]Objective-C
NSTask runs an external process with explicit path and arguments.
void runls()
{
[[NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/bin/ls"
arguments:[NSArray array]] waitUntilExit];
}
If you need to run a system command, invoke the shell:
void runSystemCommand(NSString *cmd)
{
[[NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/bin/sh"
arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-c", cmd, nil]]
waitUntilExit];
}
Complete usage example:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
void runSystemCommand(NSString *cmd)
{
[[NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/bin/sh"
arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-c", cmd, nil]]
waitUntilExit];
}
int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool;
pool = [NSAutoreleasePool new];
runSystemCommand(@"ls");
[pool release];
return 0;
}
Or use the C method above.
[edit]OCaml
Just run the command:
Sys.command "ls"
To capture the output of the command:
#load "unix.cma" let syscall cmd = let ic, oc = Unix.open_process cmd in let buf = Buffer.create 16 in (try while true do Buffer.add_channel buf ic 1 done with End_of_file -> ()); let _ = Unix.close_process (ic, oc) in (Buffer.contents buf) let listing = syscall "ls" ;;
a more complete version which also returns the contents from stderr, and checks the exit-status, and where the environment can be specified:
let check_exit_status = function | Unix.WEXITED 0 -> () | Unix.WEXITED r -> Printf.eprintf "warning: the process terminated with exit code (%d)\n%!" r | Unix.WSIGNALED n -> Printf.eprintf "warning: the process was killed by a signal (number: %d)\n%!" n | Unix.WSTOPPED n -> Printf.eprintf "warning: the process was stopped by a signal (number: %d)\n%!" n ;; let syscall ?(env=[| |]) cmd = let ic, oc, ec = Unix.open_process_full cmd env in let buf1 = Buffer.create 96 and buf2 = Buffer.create 48 in (try while true do Buffer.add_channel buf1 ic 1 done with End_of_file -> ()); (try while true do Buffer.add_channel buf2 ec 1 done with End_of_file -> ()); let exit_status = Unix.close_process_full (ic, oc, ec) in check_exit_status exit_status; (Buffer.contents buf1, Buffer.contents buf2)
val syscall : ?env:string array -> string -> string * string
[edit]Octave
system("ls");
[edit]Oz
{OS.system "ls" _}
A more sophisticated example can be found here.
[edit]PARI/GP
system("ls")
[edit]Pascal
Program ExecuteSystemCommand; uses SysUtils; begin ExecuteProcess('/bin/ls', '-alh'); end.
[edit]Perl
my @results = qx(ls); # runs command and returns its STDOUT as a string my @results = `ls`; # ditto, alternative syntax system "ls"; # runs command and returns its exit status; its STDOUT gets output to our STDOUT print `ls`; #The same, but with back quotes exec "ls"; # replace current process with another
Also see:http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html#Using-open()-for-IPChttp://perldoc.perl.org/IPC/Open3.html
[edit]Perl 6
run "ls" or die $!; # output to stdout my @ls = qx/ls/; # output to variable my $cmd = 'ls'; my @ls = qqx/$ls/; # same thing with interpolation
[edit]PHP
The first line execute the command and the second line display the output:
@exec($command,$output);
echo nl2br($output);
Note:The '@' is here to prevent error messages to be displayed, 'nl2br' translate '\n' chars to 'br' in HTML.
Other:
$results = `ls`;
# runs command and returns its STDOUT as a string
system("ls");
# runs command and returns its exit status; its STDOUT gets output to our STDOUT
echo `ls`;
# the same, but with back quotes
passthru("ls");
# like system() but binary-safe
See also: proc_open()
[edit]PicoLisp
(call "ls")
[edit]Pike
int main(){ // Process.run was added in Pike 7.8 as a wrapper to simplify the use of Process.create_process() mapping response = Process.run("ls -l"); // response is now a map containing 3 fields // stderr, stdout, and exitcode. We want stdout. write(response["stdout"] + "\n"); // with older versions of pike it's a bit more complicated: Stdio.File stdout = Stdio.File(); Process.create_process(({"ls", "-l"}), ([ "stdout" : stdout->pipe() ]) ); write(stdout->read() + "\n"); }
[edit]Pop11
The sysobey function runs commands using a shell:
sysobey('ls');
[edit]PowerShell
Since PowerShell is a shell, running commands is the default operation.
dir ls Get-ChildItem
are all equivalent (the first two are aliases for the third) but they are PowerShell-native commands. If one really needs to executedir
(which is no program but rather a built-in command in cmd.exe
) this can be achieved by
cmd /c dir
[edit]Prolog
shell('ls').
[edit]PureBasic
ImportC "msvcrt.lib" system(str.p-ascii) EndImport If OpenConsole() system("dir & pause") Print(#CRLF$ + #CRLF$ + "Press ENTER to exit") Input() CloseConsole() EndIf
[edit]Python
import os
exit_code = os.system('ls') # Just execute the command, return a success/fail code
output = os.popen('ls').read() # If you want to get the output data. Deprecated.
or
import subprocess
# if the exit code was non-zero these commands raise a CalledProcessError
exit_code = subprocess.check_call(['ls', '-l']) # Python 2.5+
assert exit_code == 0
output = subprocess.check_output(['ls', '-l']) # Python 2.7+
or
from subprocess import PIPE, Popen, STDOUT
p = Popen('ls', stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT)
print p.communicate()[0]
Note: The latter is the preferred method for calling external processes, although cumbersome, it gives you finer control over the process.
or
import commands
stat, out = commands.getstatusoutput('ls')
if not stat:
print out
[edit]R
system("ls") output=system("ls",intern=TRUE)
[edit]Raven
Back tick string is auto executed:
`ls -la` as listing
Or specifically on any string:
'ls -la' shell as listing
[edit]REBOL
; Capture output to string variable: x: "" call/output "dir" x print x ; The 'console' refinement displays the command output on the REBOL command line. call/console "dir *.r" call/console "ls *.r" call/console "pause" ; The 'shell' refinement may be necessary to launch some programs. call/shell "notepad.exe"
[edit]REXX
Since REXX is a shell scripting language, it's easy to execute commands:
"dir /a:d"
[edit]Ruby
string = `ls`
# runs command and returns its STDOUT as a string
string = %x{ls}
# ditto, alternative syntax
system "ls"
# runs command and returns its exit status; its STDOUT gets output to our STDOUT
print `ls`
#The same, but with back quotes
exec "ls"
# replace current process with another
# call system command and read output asynchronously
io = IO.popen('ls')
# ... later
io.each {|line| puts line}
[edit]Run BASIC
print shell$("ls") ' prints the returned data from the OS a$ = shell$("ls") ' holds returned data in a$
[edit]Scala
import scala.sys.process.Process Process("ls", Seq("-oa"))!
[edit]Scheme
(system "ls")
[edit]Seed7
System commands can make a program unportable.Unix, Linux and BSD use the commandls, while Windows respectively DOS use the command dir.The format written byls respectively dir depends on operating system and locale.The libraryosfiles.s7i definesthe function read_dir,which reads the contents of a directory in a portable way. Read_dir works independendfrom operating system and locale and supports also Unicode filenames.Anyway, the task was to use a system command, so here is the example:
$ include "seed7_05.s7i"; include "shell.s7i"; const proc: main is func begin cmd_sh("ls"); end func;
[edit]Slate
Run a command normally through the shell:
Platform run: 'ls'.
Run a command (this way takes advantage of the 'does not understand' message for the shell object and calls the Platform run: command above with a specific command):
shell ls: '*.slate'.
[edit]Smalltalk
Smalltalk system: 'ls'.
[edit]Standard ML
Just run the command:
OS.Process.system "ls"
[edit]Tcl
puts [exec ls]
This page uses "ls" as the primary example. For what it's worth, Tcl has built-in primitives for retrieving lists of files so one would rarely ever directly exec an ls command.
It is also possible to execute a system command by "open"ing it through a pipe from whence any output of the command can be read at any (later) time. For example:
set io [open "|ls" r]
would execute "ls" and pipe the result into the channel whose name is put in the "io" variable. From there one could receive it either line by line like this:
set nextline [gets $io]
or read the whole shebang in a fell swoop:
set lsoutput [read $io]
If the command is opened "rw", it is even possible to send it user input through the same handle, though care must be taken with buffering in that case.
[edit]Toka
needs shell " ls" system
[edit]TUSCRIPT
$$ MODE TUSCRIPT system=SYSTEM () IF (system=="WIN") THEN EXECUTE "dir" ELSEIF (system.sw."LIN") THEN EXECUTE "ls -l" ENDIF
[edit]UNIX Shell
UNIX shells are designed to run system commands as a default operation.
ls
If one wishes to replace the shell process with some other command (chain into some command with no return) one can use theexec shell built-in command.
exec ls
[edit]Command substitution
One can also capture the command's standard output in a variable.
With Bourne Shell:
output=`ls`
With Korn Shell or any modern shell:
output=$(ls)
- Note 1: in
`ls`
, these are "backticks" rather than quotes or apostrophes. - Note 2: the $(...) form works in all modern shells, including theAlmquist Shell,Bash and any POSIX shell.
- The old `backticks` can also be used in the newer shells, but their users prefer the$(...) form when discussing such things in e-mail, on USENET, or in other online forums (such as this wiki). The only reason to use `backticks` is in scripts for old Bourne Shell.
The `...` form is difficult to nest, but the $(...) form is very nestable.
output=`expr \`echo hi | wc -c\` - 1` output=$(expr $(echo hi | wc -c) - 1)
Both forms, `backticks` and $(...), also work inside double-quoted strings. This prevents file name expansion and also prevents word splitting.
echo "Found: `grep 80/tcp /etc/services`" echo "Found: $(grep 80/tcp /etc/services)"
[edit]C Shell
C Shell also runs system commands, and has an exec built-in command, exactly like Bourne Shell.
ls # run command, return to shell exec ls # replace shell with command
`Backticks` are slightly different. When inside double quotes, as "`...`", C Shell splits words at newlines, like"line 1" "line 2" ..., but preserves spaces and tabs.
set output=( "`grep 80/ /etc/services`" ) echo "Line 1: $output[1]" echo "Line 2: $output[2]"
[edit]Ursala
The library function, ask, parameterized by a shell descriptor, such as bash,spawns a process that interacts with that shell by feeding it a list ofcommands, and returns a transcript of the interaction.
Note that the output from the spawned process is captured and returned only,not sent to the standard output stream of the parent.
Here is a self-contained command line application providing a limited replacementfor the ls command.
#import std #import cli #executable ('parameterized','') myls = <.file$[contents: --<''>]>@hm+ (ask bash)/0+ -[ls --color=no]-!
The color option is needed to suppress terminal escape sequences.
[edit]Vedit macro language
system("dir", DOS)
The above does not work on 64-bit Windows versions which do not have 16-bit DOS emulation.In this case, you need to call cmd.exe explicitly:
system('cmd /k "dir"')
[edit]Visual Basic
Shelling out a sub task in Visual Basic is rather a pain if you need to wait for the task to complete, whichis probably the usual case. But it is possible.
Attribute VB_Name = "mdlShellAndWait"
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal dwDesiredAccess As Long, ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, _
ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetExitCodeProcess Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hProcess As Long, lpExitCode As Long) As Long
Private Const STATUS_PENDING = &H103&
Private Const PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION = &H400
'
' Little function go get exit code given processId
'
Function ProcessIsRunning( processId as Long ) as Boolean
Dim exitCode as Long
Call GetExitCodeProcess(lProcessId, exitCode)
ProcessIsRunning = (exitCode = STATUS_PENDING)
End Function
' Spawn subprocess and wait for it to complete.
' I believe that the command in the command line must be an exe or a bat file.
' Maybe, however, it can reference any file the system knows how to "Open"
'
' commandLine is an executable.
' expectedDuration - is for poping up a dialog for whatever
' infoText - text for progressDialog dialog
Public Function ShellAndWait( commandLine As String, _
expectedDuration As Integer ) As Boolean
Dim inst As Long
Dim startTime As Long
Dim expirationTime As Long
Dim pid As Long
Dim expiresSameDay As Boolean
On Error GoTo HandleError
'Deal with timeout being reset at Midnight ($hitForBrains VB folks)
startTime = CLng(Timer)
expirationTime = startTime + expectedDuration
expiresSameDay = expirationTime < 86400
If Not expiresSameDay Then
expirationTime = expirationTime - 86400
End If
inst = Shell(commandLine, vbMinimizedNoFocus)
If inst <> 0 Then
pid = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, False, inst)
Do While ProcessIsRunning( pid)
DoEvents
If Timer > expirationTime And (expiresSameDay Or Timer < startTime) Then
Exit Do
End If
Loop
ShellAndWait = True
Else
MsgBox ("Couldn't execute command: " & commandLine)
ShellAndWait = False
End If
Exit Function
HandleError:
MsgBox ("Couldn't execute command: " & commandLine)
ShellAndWait = False
End Function
Sub SpawnDir()
ShellAndWait("dir", 10)
End Sub
[edit]ZX Spectrum Basic
The ZX Spectrum uses a ROM based basic interpreter, so every statement within the program is a system command. If a command without a line number is typed, whilst the computer is in a ready state, the command gets executed immediately:
PAUSE 100