Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> writes:

> I have tried 
> -------------------------------------------------
> #  let listing = Unix.execv "ls -laprt";;
> val listing : string array -> unit = <fun>
> # let l = Array.to_list listing;;
> This expression has type string array -> unit but is here used with
> type
>   'a array
> -------------------------------------------------

Unix.execv is a raw interface to the exec unix system call.

You should use the "High-level process and redirection management"
function :

let reading = open_process_in "ls -laprt";;

then reading is a in_channel that you can read with the General input
functions of the core library.

for example if you want the list of the line :

let rec list_of_line file_in =
  try
    let line = input_line file in in
    line :: (list_of_line file_in)
  with    
    | End_of_file -> []

but stream may be more useful than list to manipulate information
from a channel
(and the Directories function of the Unix library are more useful
than this list, if you want to know what is in a directory)
-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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