[Mono-list] Capturing output from Linux Command Line programs

[Elliott Draper]

mono-list.1.tracyanne at spamgourmet.com wrote:

>>Hi,
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>>>Yes you can, and this has nothing to do with what I am trying to do.
>>>Please read my original post. My problem has absolutely nothing to do
>>>with capuring output from MY program.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to capture output from existing linux Command Line program
>>>like wget, mkisofs and others, so I can use that output in a GUI application.
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>>The method described should work for *any* command line application -
>>try it. You may be surprised.
>>
>>TTFN
>>
>>Paul
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>I doubt it, I use that method quite a bit. It however does not answer
>my need. It also does not explain why System.Diagnostics.Process does
>not seem to function as expected, and it does not give me a real time
>feed of the output from a Linux command line program, like wget to my
>GUI application.
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>So I'm am not in the least interested in reading about one can redirect
>stdout using the redirect ">" on the command line works. You can do
>that until the cows come home, and it still won't solve my problem.
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>Anyone want to tell me how I can interact with a command line program
>like say cdrecord in the same way that X-CD-Roast does, but using Mono
>and C#.
>
>regards
>
>Tracy Barlow
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What's wrong with firing off a System.Diagnostics.Process that executes 
it, and reading the output from the "StandardOutput" stream on the 
process? You say that Process "does not seem to function as expected"; 
howso?

Regards,
-= El =-