How about qx and qxx? I guess those don't separate/capture stderr, and don't separate out the params.
--Brock On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > The documentation has a nice example showing how to run an external > program and how to get its output or even its standard error. > https://docs.perl6.org/type/Proc > > However it looks a lot more complex than the plain backtick Perl 5 has > and more complex than the capture function of Capture::Tiny. > IMHO it is way too much code. > > I wrote a simple function wrapping it: > > sub capture(*@args) { > my $p = run @args, :out, :err; > my $output = $p.out.slurp: :close; > my $error = $p.err.slurp: :close; > my $exit = $p.exitcode; > > return { > out => $output, > err => $error, > exit => $exit; > }; > } > > It can be used as: > > my $res = capture($*EXECUTABLE, 'bin/create_db.pl6'); > say $res<out>; > > or even > > say capture($*EXECUTABLE, 'bin/create_db.pl6')<out>; > > I wonder if I have just invented something that already exist in > Rakudo or if it is not there, then wouldn't it be a good idea to add > such a simple way to run external commands? > > regards > Gabor > ps. Backtick actually expected a single string and not a list of > parameters and supporting that mode, even if it is less secure, might > be also a good idea. >
