On Aug 25, 10:00 pm, Parth Malwankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to run a shell command through Clojure > so I tried the following which doesn't work: > > user=> (.. Runtime (getRuntime) (exec "vim")) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > user=> (.. Runtime (getRuntime) (exec "/usr/bin/vim")) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > user=> (.. Runtime (getRuntime) (exec "ls")) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I may be doing something really silly here as I > don't really know Java. Whats the right way to do this?
You've managed to successfully launch subprocesses, but it looks like you're expecting exec to return a String, when in fact it returns a Process. If you want to get the subprocess's output, you'll need to call getInputStream on the Process object, and extract the output from there. (Of course, there might be a library function that does everything for you, but I'm not aware of any such function.) Stuart --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
