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shellInterface

..Root.system.shellInterface

Calls the operating system’s command processor.

• Unix-like systems: uses popen
• Windows: creates powershell process with -nologo option and pipes command to it

Replaces ${n} tokens with n-th argument of function.

• Parameters: String pattern, any number of Basic

• Return value: new String

  • Unix-like systems: stdout of process created with popen
  • Windows: stdout of powershell -nologo excluding lines consisting of whitespaces only and powershell prompt lines (marked internally with <PS_PROMPT_TOKEN> token)

Child of:

system

Signatures:

NativeCallable, Callable

Example:

import("system");

system.shellInterface("echo ${1}", "ABC");

Expected output:

ABC