From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce7e6cb0bec07cff X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-06 17:48:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DC9D64B.9266D680@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: retrieve command result References: <3DC946C2.3000505@cnam.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 01:48:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.190.208.99 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1036633695 63.190.208.99 (Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:48:15 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:48:15 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30496 Date: 2002-11-07T01:48:15+00:00 List-Id: evangeli wrote: > > hi all > > is it possible to retrieve the result of a command in a variable. > i explain myself: You are looking for "Pipes", which is an excellent piece of software written by Jim Rogers. It makes doing things like this very easy. http://www.adapower.com/reuse/pipes.html Marc A. Criley Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com