On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Luca de Alfaro wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am looking for a quick way to do the equivalent of
>
> s = commands.getoutput ("ls " + name + "*")
>
> in Ocaml.
>
> Unix.system does perform a call, but the output of the call is not
> returned... yes, I can redirect it to /tmp/output.ocaml and then read the
> file, or even go crazy and build pipes, but is there a more elegant (read:
> succint) way to do it?

I needed something to that effect yesterday and wrote following:

open Unix;;

let getprocout cmd =
   let ic = open_process_in cmd in
   let b = Buffer.create 10 in
   let rec loop () =
     match try Some (input_line ic) with End_of_file -> None with
       | None -> Buffer.contents b
       | Some line ->
           Buffer.add_string b line;
           loop ()
   in
     loop ()
;;

-- 
vale