Another day, another bit of tinkering with some of my old Python scripts to try
and get my head round Nim.
This is an old script I had which takes a list of [IMHO] junk processes and
kills them on my OSX laptop. [For the purposes of testing I'm just using Finder
and Dock as placeholders, as they'll relaunch automatically after killing,
which speeds up testing]
Assuming execProcess is the way to go, I've come up with:
#import
import osproc
#processes to kill
var processes = ["Finder","Dock"]
for process in processes:
execProcess("pkill", args=[" -9", process])
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but, when I run that I get:
Error: expression 'execProcess("pkill", [" -9", process], nil,
{poStdErrToStdOut, poUsePath, poEvalCommand})' is of type
'TaintedString' and has to be discarded
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"TaintedString" is a new one on me. But I'm assuming it's the usual newbie
error when trying out a strongly typed language and I'm somehow mixing types in
the command I'm passing to execProcess. So I tried with:
execProcess("pkill", args=[" -9", $process])
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instead. But still got the same error.
The example in the docs has the args to the command 'hard-wired':
let outp = execProcess("nim", args=["c", "-r", "mytestfile.nim"],
options={poUsePath})
let outp_shell = execProcess("nim c -r mytestfile.nim")
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So, how do I pass args in as a variable?
