[Sc-devel] unixCmd exit code printing

[Till Bovermann]

you may just use systemCmd, this does not print the exitCode, but  
returns it as an integer number (which you may or may not ignore :-)

hope that helps
Till

On 27.07.2007, at 11:32, Tom Hall wrote:

> Hello All
>
> unlike the default behaviour of a shell, unixCmd prints the exit  
> code of the process in the post window (usually RESULT = 0). This  
> can clog up the window the if a large number of commands are being  
> executed.
>
> Could we easily have a flag to turn off this posting behaviour?  
> Something like,
>
> "ls".unixCmd(printExitCode: false)
>
> The printing is called by line 129 in SuperCollider3/Source/lang/ 
> LangPrimSource/PyrUnixPrim.cpp
>
> 	post("RESULT = %d\n", res);
>
> If a flag is not a bad idea, could someone who knows C possibly  
> implement this?
>
> The context is a little SC String method to link SC to the OSX UNIX  
> utility BigHonkingText
> details at www.ludions.com/sc/
>
> Regards
>
> Tom
>
>
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