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Something like this?John Duchek wrote:Is it possible to issue a bash command from pb and get a return? For example, is there a way to get a current directory using 'pwd' and get a return of '/home/john' ?
If there is I would really like to know how. I could use that kind of function often.
Thanks,
John
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*MemoryID = AllocateMemory(100)
pwd = RunProgram("pwd","",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read)
ReadProgramData(pwd,*MemoryID,100)
Debug PeekS(*MemoryID,-1,#PB_Ascii)Because nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!broozar wrote:out of curiosity, any reason why you chose ReadProgramData over ReadProgramString? Since -String does not make you mess with buffers, peeks and formats/encodings, it seems to me to be the safer method. am I wrong?
Aren't Linux programs able to output Unicode characters to the console? Or is the console output UTF8?bbanelli wrote:Code: Select all
*MemoryID = AllocateMemory(100) pwd = RunProgram("pwd","",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read) ReadProgramData(pwd,*MemoryID,100) Debug PeekS(*MemoryID,-1,#PB_Ascii)
To be honest, I wasn't paying much attention, but you are probably right, it should.Danilo wrote:Aren't Linux programs able to output Unicode characters to the console? Or is the console output UTF8?bbanelli wrote:Code: Select all
*MemoryID = AllocateMemory(100) pwd = RunProgram("pwd","",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read) ReadProgramData(pwd,*MemoryID,100) Debug PeekS(*MemoryID,-1,#PB_Ascii)
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bubba@ubuntu-x86:~$ echo $LANG
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*MemoryID = AllocateMemory(100)
pwd = RunProgram("pwd","",GetCurrentDirectory(),#PB_Program_Open|#PB_Program_Read)
ReadProgramData(pwd,*MemoryID,100)
Debug "No flag: " + PeekS(*MemoryID,-1)
Debug "ASCII flag: " + PeekS(*MemoryID,-1, #PB_Ascii)
Debug "UTF-8 flag: " + PeekS(*MemoryID,-1, #PB_UTF8)
i made the comment because i noticed that my output of "999" was returning nonsense when using Data+PeekI (result: funny long row of numbers), then i tried Data+PeekS with no format parameter (result: empty string), then Data+PeekS with UTF8 (proper result), so then I thought "... hang on a minute, why not use -String to begin with?", and that's how it came about.Is a good idea, but "normally", linux use only utf-8!broozar wrote:do you think it is required/a good idea to parse the LANG env variable before interpreting the output, so you can set Ascii or UTF8 before using PeekS?
Someone will probably correct me if I'm wrong, but stdin, stdout and stderr are always FILE pointer types in return value. I think you cannot expect PeekI to return proper value in that case.broozar wrote:now who said it was safer
Question prior to this would be is $LANG variable defined standard in all Linux console environments?do you think it is required/a good idea to parse the LANG env variable before interpreting the output, so you can set Ascii or UTF8 before using PeekS?
