Re: [Vala] read a program stdout

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hello,

                في ر، 23-11-2011 عند 15:08 -0200 ، كتب Rodrigo Herefeld:
> Hi all!
> I need to run a program and get the stdout data from it, for example, im
> python i would
> do:
> import os
> print(os.popen("gpg --version").read()
>
> in vala i've tryed:
>
> var ret = Posix.FILE.popen("gpg --version","r+");
> string tmpret = "";
> ret.scanf("%s",tmpret);

You probably want "out tmpret" here. Take a look at GLib.Process
(especially spawn_command_line_sync), it may be an easier way to do what
you want. http://valadoc.org/glib-2.0/GLib.Process.html

HTH,
Abderrahim