Stupid Unix tricks

[Sjoerd Op 't Land]

Bill Vlahos wrote/ schreef:

> There are some command line programs I would like to put in a nice UI.
> It seems like Revolution would make this pretty easy except I don't see
> in the documentation how to write it. Is there a way to program Rev for
> command line functions directly?
> 
> I would like to send "commands" and read and display the results in Rev
> and would rather not simply AppleScript the Terminal app.
> 
> I only need to do this for Mac OS X but I suspect the principal would be
> the same for other platforms too.
AFAIK, you can use the shell() function on Wintel/*NIX platforms, except
MacOS (X), unfortunately.

> Bill Vlahos
> Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Regards, / Groeten,
Sjoerd