fpSystem

Execute and feed command to system shell

Declaration

Source position: unix.pp line 116

  function fpSystem(const Command: RawByteString) : cint;

Description

FpSystem invokes the bash shell (/bin/sh), and feeds it the command Command (using the -c option). The function then waits for the command to complete, and then returns the exit status of the command in wait(3) format, or 127 if it could not complete the FpFork or FpExecve calls. To convert the return value of fpsystem to the real return value use WEXITSTATUS() .

Errors

Errors are reported in (fpget)ErrNo

See also

Name Description
POpen Pipe file to standard input/output of program
FpExecve Execute process using environment
FpFork Create child process

Example

program example56;
uses Unix;
{ Program to demonstrate the Shell function }
Var S : Longint;
begin
  Writeln ('Output of ls -l *.pp');
  S:=fpSystem('ls -l *.pp');
  Writeln ('Command exited wwith status : ',S);
end.