Oh right. Thanks. I forgot about them. Maybe https://docs.perl6.org/routine/run should mention them as well.
In any case a simpler way to capture everything might be useful. Gabor On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> wrote: > How about qx and qxx? I guess those don't separate/capture stderr, and don't > separate out the params. > > --Brock > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The documentation has a nice example showing how to run an external >> program and how to get its output or even its standard error. >> https://docs.perl6.org/type/Proc >> >> However it looks a lot more complex than the plain backtick Perl 5 has >> and more complex than the capture function of Capture::Tiny. >> IMHO it is way too much code. >> >> I wrote a simple function wrapping it: >> >> sub capture(*@args) { >> my $p = run @args, :out, :err; >> my $output = $p.out.slurp: :close; >> my $error = $p.err.slurp: :close; >> my $exit = $p.exitcode; >> >> return { >> out => $output, >> err => $error, >> exit => $exit; >> }; >> } >> >> It can be used as: >> >> my $res = capture($*EXECUTABLE, 'bin/create_db.pl6'); >> say $res<out>; >> >> or even >> >> say capture($*EXECUTABLE, 'bin/create_db.pl6')<out>; >> >> I wonder if I have just invented something that already exist in >> Rakudo or if it is not there, then wouldn't it be a good idea to add >> such a simple way to run external commands? >> >> regards >> Gabor >> ps. Backtick actually expected a single string and not a list of >> parameters and supporting that mode, even if it is less secure, might >> be also a good idea.
