On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:23:45PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > i was wondering though if it is possible to use PCB to directly > > invoke external shell comands, without using them to read or write > > stuff. basicly what i want is to invoke 'make' from PCB, and > > subsequentally reading in some files. i didn't find anything about > > this in my first read of the PCB doc. > > It doesn't at the moment, but it would be trivial to add. Why not try > to add it yourself? The source file you're interested in is > src/action.c, there's a table at the bottom of actions defined in that > file. Add one for "System()" or "Shell()", copy one of the smaller > existing actions, and edit as needed. > > ActionMessage() is probably a good function to copy from. >
indeed. see attach for the code i've added. thanks for the fast response!
/* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ static const char system_syntax[] = "System(commandline)"; static const char system_help[] = "Executes a system command."; /* %start-doc actions System This action executes a shell command through the libc call system(). If multiple arguments are given, each argument is executed in turn. %end-doc */ static int ActionSystem (int argc, char **argv, int x, int y) { int i; if (argc < 1) AFAIL (system); for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) { system(argv[i]); } return 0; } /* {"System", 0, ActionSystem, system_help, system_syntax} , */
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