PIPETOSTR()

Purpose

Return the output from (optionally piped) Linux commands

Syntax

PIPETOSTR(<expC>)

See Also

DO, RUN, SPAWN, EXEC(), GETENV(), PUTENV()

Description

The PIPETOSTR() function runs the Linux operating system command specified in <expC> and returns the output as a character string. The specified operating system command may contain pipes (|).

Example

// Return information about user Lianja process
? pipetostr("ps -ef | grep db.exe | grep "+user())