I think the OpenOffice.org developers list is a better place to ask
this kind of question. Maybe [email protected] or something like
that.

J.R.

2009/8/18 Christian Rößler <[email protected]>:
> Christian Rößler schrieb:
>
> Hallo everyone - answering my own posts, as usual:).
>
> For the record, as other have similar problems, perhaps:
>
>> I have thrown this DDE stuff overboard and wrapped the things I need
>> into a shell command, which writes a temporary file, which I then scoop
>> up with an OpenOffice macro.
>> Now, it would be more... elegant if I just could grab the stdout of that
>> shell script. For asking purpose let's use the 'date' command.
>> shell "bash -c 'date > /home/chr/date_ausgabe.txt'"
>> ...will write that temporary file I talked of. How can I write the
>> output of 'date' immediately into a string variable?
>
> - it is not possible to directly read stout of another program directly
> from a script.
> - One solution would be the usage of temporary files, and using (in a
> while loop eg.) FileExists to test, whether the file is written.
> - Another possibility would be to call openoffice from a script and
> using a global variable:
>
> | #!/bin/bash
> | soffice "macro:///Standard.Module41.de26422( `some linux command` )"
>
> More about this way here:
> <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=87423>
> <http://de.openoffice.info/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=26422>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
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