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Re: Executing A Shell Script...


  • Subject: Re: Executing A Shell Script...
  • From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:53:47 +0100

Rhon Fitzwater <email@hidden> wrote:
> I think you should just be able to use: system(). So if you wanted to
> do, say mkdir, all you have to do is system("/bin/mkdir /DirMade");
> I added /bin to it because you may sometime get a zsh error, which means
> it cant find the command, so I always put in the full path to be safe.
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Rhon

You could except that using system() yourself is dangerous because of how
the arguments are handled. Your call would break if the directory to be
made contained a space, for example. You could also accidentally execute
privileged code if you weren't careful about the directory name...

The safer way would surely to be create an NSTask.

Cheers,

Chris
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