PIPETOSTR()

Purpose

Return the output from (optionally piped) Linux commands

Syntax

PIPETOSTR(<expC>)

See Also

!, !!, ALIAS, DO, RUN, SPAWN, EXEC(), GETENV(), PUTENV(), SET RUNCLEAR, SET RUNWAIT, DB_RUNLOG

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 Recital process
? pipetostr("ps -ef | grep db.exe | grep "+user())

Products

Recital, Recital Server