[Gambas-user] Help with SHELL and EXEC

[Ron_1st]

On Friday 10 October 2008, Kari Laine wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Benoit Minisini <
> gambas at ...1...> wrote:
> 
> > On vendredi 10 octobre 2008, Kari Laine wrote:
> >
> > Did you look at the "Console" example?
> >
> > Hi, thanks had a look it at now.
> 
> I am trying to use genisoimage. Problem I think is that it exists straight
> away after shell is executed so that it is not round when I try to write
> (print) to process handle.
> What I would need in my program is that I start genisoimage to output
> certain iso-file image and then I write the file names to it's standard
> input. This is what I dont't get working.
> 
> I really don't know what the problem is.
> 
> on command line this works
> 
> ls |xargs genisoimage -o testi.iso
> 

This is a more ore less multi  'commands' line.

You should use the whole line in one command.

  DIM myProc AS Process 

  myProc = SHELL "(ls | xargs genisoimage -o testi.iso )"  FOR WRITE


the parenthesis groups the command to one main block
See man bash command grouping.


Best regards
Ron_1st