Copyright	(c) The University of Glasgow 2001
License	BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
Maintainer	libraries@haskell.org
Stability	provisional
Portability	portable
Safe Haskell	Safe
Language	Haskell2010

System.Cmd

Description

Deprecated: Use System.Process instead

Executing an external command.

This module provides a simple interface for executing external commands. For a more complex, but more powerful, interface, see the System.Process module.

Synopsis

system :: String -> IO ExitCode
rawSystem :: String -> [String] -> IO ExitCode

Documentation

system :: String -> IO ExitCode Source #

Computation system cmd returns the exit code produced when the operating system runs the shell command cmd.

This computation may fail with one of the following IOErrorType exceptions:

PermissionDenied: The process has insufficient privileges to perform the operation.
ResourceExhausted: Insufficient resources are available to perform the operation.
UnsupportedOperation: The implementation does not support system calls.

On Windows, system passes the command to the Windows command interpreter (CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM), hence Unixy shell tricks will not work.

On Unix systems, see waitForProcess for the meaning of exit codes when the process died as the result of a signal.

rawSystem :: String -> [String] -> IO ExitCode Source #

The computation rawSystem cmd args runs the operating system command cmd in such a way that it receives as arguments the args strings exactly as given, with no funny escaping or shell meta-syntax expansion. It will therefore behave more portably between operating systems than system.

The return codes and possible failures are the same as for system.