2008/9/18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> ---- Ishan Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and
>> returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such
>> that the stdout output of the command is returned as a string? Thanks again.
>
> Try open-input-pipe in the (ice-9 popen) module.
That is indeed the best way, with an up to date Guile. In case you're
stuck with an old one (1.6.x, I think) where open-input-pipe isn't
reliable, you can work around that by doing something like this:
(system "your-command-here > temp-file.txt")
(with-input-from-file "temp-file.txt" read-line)
Neil
