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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
