May anybody confirm that the following example-code works with gambas 1.0.18 or gambas2, please ? Example: ' Get the contents of a directory into a string DIM sOutput AS String EXEC [ "ls", "-la", "/tmp" ] TO sOutput I found this at http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/lang/exec but it does not work for me. Any hints how to do it without the process_read sub ? regas Juergen