Re: [Chicken-users] Adding (system->string) somewhere

[Ivan Raikov]

Hello,

  If I understand this description correctly, the runcmd egg has this
functionality. Take a look at its documentation and see if it would
work for you.

   -Ivan


Ozzi <address@hidden> writes:

> Could we get something akin to (system->string) added to Chicken
> somewhere? Summary from:
>
> http://practical-scheme.net/wiliki/schemexref.cgi?system-%3estring
>
> "Appends all strings, then calls the result string as a command, and
> collects the output from the command into a string to be returned. See
> system."
>
> I am using the following code, which just takes a single string:
>
> (define (system->string cmd)
>   (string-chomp (with-input-from-pipe cmd read-all)))
>
> Either the library or posix units look like good candidates to me.
>