[erlang-questions] Executing external commands

[Michael McDaniel]

 following works on Linux ...

$ uname -a
Linux delora 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Fri Oct 13 18:41:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

$ erl
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.3 [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.5.3  (abort with ^G)
1> os:cmd("/bin/ls fubar; echo $?").
"/bin/ls: fubar: No such file or directory\n2\n"
2> os:cmd("/bin/ls foo; echo $?").
"foo\n0\n"
3> init:stop().
4> $
$

 You can then parse out the return value from the echo.  There are 
 probably other ways to get the result you are looking for.

 I think this discussion came up a few months ago.  The above is the result
 of the particular shell called.

~Michael


On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:48:10PM -0200, Fernando Ipar wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to run external commands in erlang and get it's 
> exit code back to erlang.
> As far as I understand, os:cmd(Command) only returns the output of 
> running the program.
> 
> Is there a way to get the exit code from the command, or do I have to 
> implement an external program to run these commands and communicate
> back and forth with erlang through a port?
> 
> What I'm looking for is something like:
> 
> os:cmdwithexit(Command,ExitCode),
> case ExitCode of
>     0 ->
>     handleExitOk(Command);
>     _ ->
>     handleExitError(Command,ExitCode)
> end.
> 
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Fernando.
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