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?
>
> Luca
>
If what you want is to spawn a process and redirect the I/O, the 
standard library is short on convience functions- in this way Ocaml is 
more similiar to C++/Java than it is Perl/Python/Ruby.  Although the 
convience functions are not that hard to write.  If you want to read a 
directory, you might want to look at Unix.opendir, Unix.readdir, etc.

Brian