talking to shell from cocoa/obj-c
talking to shell from cocoa/obj-c
- Subject: talking to shell from cocoa/obj-c
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:58:10 -0800
From within a Cocoa / Objective-C program, how do I speak to the
shell in such a way that the response, which would normally go to
STDOUT, comes back to me? As a simple example, how can I say "date"
(the Unix command) in such a way as to learn the date?
I see how to do this sort of thing with an NSTask by using a file on
disk as an intermediary, but I want the Unix command's STDOUT to pipe
directly back to me somehow. I tried to do this with an NSPipe but
failed.
Thx - m.
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