[Gambas-user] Shell - commands with arguments doesn't work

[Kende Krisztián]

Thu, 30 May 2013 23:50:30 +0200 -n
Jesus <ea7dfh at ...2382...> írta:

> El 30/05/13 21:35, Kende Krisztián escribió:
> > An interesting example, why do not you use native methods?
> >
> > Dim item As String
> >
> > For Each item In Dir(User.Home).Sort()
> >
> >    With Stat(User.Home & "/" & item)
> >
> >      Print .Auth & " " & .User & " " & .Group & " " & .Size & " "
> > & .LastModified & " " & item
> >
> >    End With
> >
> > Next
> >
> >
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> AFAIR this used to work until now:
> >>
> >> Shell "ls -la" To variable
> >> Exec ["ls", "-la"] To anothervariable
> >>
> >> But now, whatever command I use, if it has one or more arguments
> >> beginning with a dash or double dash, I don't get any output.
> >>
> >> Quoting it with Shell$() function does not help. Also, I've tried
> >> using process reading, to no avail.
> >>
> >> If you would issue the command without arguments, it then works
> >> fine.
> >>
> >> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Gambas 3.4.90 r5682
> >>
> 
> That's not the case. What I wanted to point out is why some commands 
> does not work when some arguments are given. Obviously, my first
> example is pointless.
> 
> Have you tested the following?
> 
> Shell "ifconfig --help" To somevar
> 
> Why this does not return anything?
> 
> Regards

It's works:

Shell "ifconfig --help 2>&1" To somevar

but stderr cannot be seen.