Function std.process.spawnShell
A variation on spawnProcess that runs the given command through
the current user's preferred command interpreter (aka. shell).
Pid spawnShell
(
const(char[]) command,
File stdin = makeGlobal(),
File stdout = makeGlobal(),
File stderr = makeGlobal(),
const(string[string]) env = cast(const(string[string]))null,
Config config = cast(Config)0,
const(char[]) workDir = null,
string shellPath = nativeShell()
) @trusted;
Pid spawnShell
(
const(char[]) command,
const(string[string]) env,
Config config = cast(Config)0,
const(char[]) workDir = null,
string shellPath = nativeShell()
) @trusted;
The string command is passed verbatim to the shell, and is therefore
subject to its rules about command structure, argument/filename quoting
and escaping of special characters.
The path to the shell executable defaults to nativeShell.
In all other respects this function works just like spawnProcess.
Please refer to the spawnProcess documentation for descriptions
of the other function parameters, the return value and any exceptions
that may be thrown.
// Run the command/program "foo" on the file named "my file.txt", and
// redirect its output into foo.log.
auto pid = spawnShell(`foo "my file.txt" > foo.log`);
wait(pid);See also
escapeShellCommand, which may be helpful in constructing a
properly quoted and escaped shell command line for the current platform.
Authors
Lars Tandle Kyllingstad, Steven Schveighoffer, Vladimir Panteleev