Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] New lua command execute_redirout which executes an os command and captures standard output

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:00:18AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> The following diff adds a new command for use in lua hooks. The command
> is called execute_redirout.  I chose the name based on spawn_redir and
> execute.  execute_redirout executes an os command and captures standard
> output and returns it (and a success/failure indicator).  

Why do you want this, btw?  I couldn't find any motivation given here,
though maybe I missed it.

-- Nathaniel

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