On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 07:28:44PM -0500, Offray Vladimir Luna C??rdenas wrote: > Thanks David and Juan, > > I was trying to run a pandoc conversion from markdown to html and I had > an error inside my command. Once corrected it works without any problem > and generates the desired file. One note on adding "exec" is that I get > this message on the playground: > > "an ExternalUnixOSProcess with pid 21552 on /bin/sh (complete, normal > termination with status 0)" > > which seems better. Despite of both working I will use the exec > suggestion to have a better message from external process. >
Using the exec shell command is a good idea. Just for information, the ExternalUnixOSProcess object is a proxy for the real external OS process, which started by running the /bin/sh program. When you use exec to run your pandoc program, the pandoc program will begin running in the same external OS process that was originally running the /bin/sh program. The ExternalUnixOSProcess object does not know that you did this, so it still displays itself as "an ExternalUnixOSProcess ... on /bin/sh" even though the OS process is now actually running your pandoc program instead. But the exit status 0 came from your pandoc program, which is exactly what you wanted. Dave
