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Re: accessing the output of an external cmd from inside a loadable built
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: accessing the output of an external cmd from inside a loadable builtin |
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Wed, 6 Jul 2022 09:42:56 -0400 |
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On 7/1/22 11:51 AM, bobg@junga.com wrote:
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> Inside my builtin, I want to execute a 'find' command and process the
> results. I have been looking at the execute_cmd.c file. I have been using
> execute_shell_function for other commands but I am not sure how I should do
> it so that I can access the output of the find command in the builtin code.
> There's probably multiple ways to do it. Can anyone suggest a good approach?
Look at subst.c:command_substitute() and how param_expand() calls it.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/