getOutput

Get the output of a shell command after passing it some input.

string

getOutput

(

string input = ""

)

Parameters

command: Type: string
Shell command to run.
input: Type: string
Input to pass to the command via stdin. Defaults to no input.

Type: string

A string containing all stdout output from the given commands execution.

A simple example for giving a program input programatically and returning the result.

assert (getOutput ("awk '{print tolower($0)}'", "TEXT") == "text");