Thanks for the response Mansur and Henrik - much appreciated. Mansur - Great, this looks much better!
Henrik - I have been looking ath the articles on ProDevTips and some of the libs on bitbucket - very helpful as well. What I'm really trying to do is have an easy way to invoke arbitrary shell commands that may be piped, process the result in pico and maybe use that as the input for another command. I haven't found a generic example yet that doesn't specify the command specifically that allows arbitrary piping and still gives you access to intermediary results. Feel free to point me to any additional examples that go beyond calling one hardcoded command. Thanks again and I'm sure I'll be back with more questions! Best, Simon On Wed Apr 16 2014 at 10:02:09 PM, Henrik Sarvell <hsarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Simon, this is similar to stuff in my own system command helper > script, I use it a lot: > https://bitbucket.org/hsarvell/ext/src/tip/cmd.l?at=default > > It might give you some ideas. > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:13 AM, <> wrote: > > Hi, Simon, > > > > you can use "apply" here: > > > > (de exe2 (X) > > (apply 'call X) ) > > > > because "call" needs multiple arguments, but not one list. > > > > Best regards, > > Mansur Mamkin > > > > 17.04.2014 7:17, Simon Luetzelschwab пишет: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> PicoLisp is my first LISP dialect and I'm trying to move some of the > >> things I do on the command line to PicoLisp's REPL and scripts. > >> > >> I'm playing around with pipes, in, out and call and have a basic > question: > >> > >> If I have the following fun - > >> > >> (de exe (X) > >> (eval (cons 'call X)) ) > >> > >> I can call it as follows - > >> > >> (exe '("ls" "-l")) > >> > >> However, if I've defined it as - > >> > >> (de exe2 (X) > >> (call X) ) > >> > >> I can't figure out how to call exe2. > >> > >> (exe2 '("ls" "-l")) > >> ls-l: Can't exec > >> -> NIL > >> > >> I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be using eval for such a case, but can't > >> figure it out. > >> > >> Any insight much appreciated. > >> > >> Best, > >> Simon > >> > >> PS: I checked the reference, online docs and Henrik's Ext / cmd.l lib > > > > -- > > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subjectUnsubscribe >
