Re: External programs, notebook interface
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- Subject: [mg24568] Re: External programs, notebook interface
- From: "John M. Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:56:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: CERN
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Hello, I find the following syntax useful. It returns the output of the Unix command in a list of strings (often a useful starting point for further manipulation of the information) ReadList["!ls -l",String] One way to just display the command output in the notebook interface is ReadList["!ls -l",String]//TableForm John Jowett Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > Brief question: > > Using the text based interface, !ls, or !date or other various Unix > shell-escapes work just fine. In the notebook FrontEnd, however, > they do not. > > This is the output I get: > > Syntax::sntx: > Syntax error in or before "Thu Jul 13 10:03:59 CDT 2000". > ^ > (line 1 of "!date") > > If I run various configurations of Run["command"], it works but doesn't > echo the output (which is I as I would expect.) > > RunThrough["command", expr] doesn't work the way I want either. > -- My home page: http://wwwslap.cern.ch/~jowett/