Shell

Execute and feed command to system shell

Declaration

Source position: line 0

Description

Shell invokes the bash shell (/bin/sh), and feeds it the command Command (using the -c option). The function then waits for the command to complete, and then returns the exit status of the command, or 127 if it could not complete the FpFork or FpExecve calls.

Errors

Extended error information is returned by the FpGetErrno function:

See also

Example

program example56;

uses Unix;

{ Program to demonstrate the Shell function }

Var S : Longint;

begin
  Writeln ('Output of ls -l *.pp');
  S:=Shell ('ls -l *.pp');
  Writeln ('Command exited wwith status : ',S);
end.