[Mono-list] shell comands and piping
Rampage
atomikramp at email.it
Wed Aug 18 20:49:23 EDT 2010
Hello everyone,
i've browsed the archive but couldn't find any information about this,
so i hope you can help me out :)
here is my problem:
i have a method like this:
public string StartProcess(string sProgram, string sArguments)
{
Process prc = new Process();
prc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
prc.StartInfo.FileName = sProgram;
prc.StartInfo.Arguments = sArguments;
prc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
prc.Start();
string stdout;
stdout = prc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
return stdout;
}
suppose that i run it like this:
StartProcess("cat", "testfile.txt");
i would get a string containing the output from cat.
the problem comes if i want to pipe something
generally using the shell i would do
#cat testfile.txt | grep word (i know i can do grep word testfile.txt,
but it's just for example)
is there a way to use the pipe with forked processes? couse i can't pass
it as an argument for my program couse it wont work.
i hope you can help me out
thanks in advice.
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