On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 10:23, Alex Sassmannshausen
<alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Zelphir,
I think you want to be using the popen / pipe procedures for this. See
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.2/guile-ref/Pipes.html
for the chapter in the manual.
Another example, for reading transactions out of a Ledger file:
(use-modules (ice-9 popen))
(define (ledger-transactions filename account payee commodity year)
(let* ((cmd (string-append "ledger -f " filename))
(cmd-add! (lambda strings (set! cmd (apply string-append cmd
" " strings)))))
(if payee
(cmd-add! "-l 'payee=~/" payee "/'"))
(if year
(cmd-add! "--begin " (number->string year) " --end "
(number->string (1+ year))))
(cmd-add! "reg")
(if account
(cmd-add! account))
(cmd-add! "-F '(\"%(format_date(date, \"%Y-%m-%d\"))\" \"%P\"
\"%(t)\")\n'")
(let ((p (open-input-pipe cmd)))
(let loop ((txs '()))
(let ((tx (read p)))
(if (eof-object? tx)
(reverse! txs)
(begin
(if commodity
(set-car! (cddr tx) (string-replace-substring
(caddr tx) commodity "")))
(loop (cons tx txs)))))))))