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

[Ozzi]

Yes, that egg was pointed out to me. It's a neat egg, but I feel more 
complicated than necessary 9 times out of 10.

Ivan Raikov wrote:
> 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.