Sollya User's Manual

Name:

bashexecute executes a shell command.

Library name:

void sollya_lib_bashexecute(sollya_obj_t)

Usage:

bashexecute(command) : string -> void

Parameters:

command is a command to be interpreted by the shell.

Description:

bashexecute(command) lets the shell interpret command. It is useful to execute some external code within Sollya.
bashexecute does not return anything. It just executes its argument. However, if command produces an output in a file, this result can be imported in Sollya with help of commands like execute, readfile and parse.

Example 1:

> bashexecute("LANG=C date");
Mon May 27 16:57:26 CEST 2013

See also: execute, readfile, parse, bashevaluate

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