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

[Jesus]

El 31/05/13 08:15, Kende Krisztián escribió:
> 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.
>

Hi, Kende and Jussi

Thanks for your clarifications. I should have realized about stderr.

Regards


-- 
Jesus Guardon