On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 19:45 +0100, Christian Capasso wrote:
> Hi, i am new in Vala Programation.
> I have a problem using the comand  "Process.spawn_command_line_sync" : when
> i try to set a comand similar to " ls > text.txt" the program doesn't
> create the txt file requested.
> I will post u an example code to make this clearer to you.
> 
> [CCode (instance_pos = -1)]
> public void on_combobox2_changed (ComboBox source){
> Process.spawn_command_line_sync ("ls > text.txt");
> }
> 
> Why the txt file is not generated.can you explain it to me please?
> Thank you for the time you are spending on my request of help.

The > is actually a bash thing, and Process.spawn_command_line_sync
doesn't support that.  See
http://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.Shell.parse_argv.html (which is linked
to from the spawn_command_line_sync documentation).

-Evan

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