On Friday, 16 November 2012 at 19:15:09 UTC, Sparsh Mittal wrote:
I want to call an external program (e.g. ls or date) in D.
This function should do for many tasks:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_process.html#shell
string shell(string cmd);
Runs cmd in a shell and returns its standard output. If the
process could not be started or exits with an error code, throws
an exception.
Or maybe this one:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#popen
(also search that page for the other popen, which calls the C
function without the need for a File struct)
Generally, anything you can do in C, you can also do in D by
calling the C functions directly.
