<div dir="ltr"><div>(Sorry about the lack of indentation in previous post)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(define (get-system-output command)</div><div>  (let ((logfilename &quot;/tmp/logtemp&quot;))</div><div>    (system (string-append command &quot; &gt; &quot; logfilename))</div><div>    (let* ((ret &quot;&quot;)</div><div>           (fd (open-file logfilename &quot;r&quot;))</div><div>           (line (read-line fd)))</div><div>      (while (not (eof-object? line))</div><div>        (set! ret (string-append ret line))</div><div>        (set! line (read-line fd)))</div><div>      (close fd)</div><div>      (system (string-append &quot;rm &quot; logfilename))</div><div>      ret)))</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Kjetil Matheussen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:k.s.matheussen@gmail.com" target="_blank">k.s.matheussen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>There might be a better solution, but this is the function I&#39;ve been using to do this:</div><div><br></div><div><table><tbody><tr><td>(<span>define</span> (<span>get-system-output</span><span> command</span>)</td>
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        <td>  (<span>let</span> ((logfilename <span><span>&quot;</span>/tmp/logtemp<span>&quot;</span></span>))</td>
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        <td>    (system (string-append command <span><span>&quot;</span> &gt; <span>&quot;</span></span> logfilename))</td>
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        <td>    (<span>let*</span> ((ret <span><span>&quot;</span><span>&quot;</span></span>)</td>
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        <td>           (fd (open-file logfilename <span><span>&quot;</span>r<span>&quot;</span></span>))</td>
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        <td>           (line (read-line fd)))</td>
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        <td>      (while (<span>not</span> (<span>eof-object?</span> line))</td>
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        <td>             (<span>set!</span> ret (string-append ret line))</td>
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        <td>             (<span>set!</span> line (read-line fd)))</td>
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        <td>      (close fd)</td>
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        <td>      (system (string-append <span><span>&quot;</span>rm <span>&quot;</span></span> logfilename))</td>
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        <td>      ret)))<br><br>(this is for guile though, not s7, but you get the idea)<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:38 PM, JV <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:billbose@gmail.com" target="_blank">billbose@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>system prints the  output of the command.<br></div>I cannot save the output with:<br><br></div>(define sv (system (&quot;ls&quot;))<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 8:02 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bil@ccrma.stanford.edu" target="_blank">bil@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">system is normally included in s7 in Linux -- try<br>
(help system) or (system &quot;ls -la s7.c&quot; #t).  If your<br>
version of s7 was built with the compiler flag<br>
WITH_SYSTEM_EXTRAS set to 0, you can still get at the<br>
c library&#39;s system function via libc.scm, but<br>
hopefully that isn&#39;t necessary.<br>
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