process

How to get the output of a command using EiffelProcess

Submitted by Jocelyn Fiat on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 17:01.

This is a quite basic but essential operation: Launch a command, and get its output in a string.

There are various solutions.

One is to redirect the output to a temporary file, and then read its content. But this is not convenient, since it require disk access, and you can not always hide the process.

Posted February 28th, 2007 by colin adams

I have been disappointed in the quality of the ISO standard for Eiffel. In fact I would be ashamed to point to it in order to show-off Eiffel.

For one, it has far too many typographical errors.

For another, some areas appear to be under-specified. For example, Unicode.

A tool for launching multiple processes synchronously or asynchronously using the same environment configured in tools such as finish_freezing or ec

This library is a part of the EiffelStudio package

Process launcher with I/O redirection

the complete Eiffel to POSIX binding