Vala.Io.Shell – Valacore – Vala Binding Reference

Description:

public class Shell : Object

Shell command helper for quick command execution and output capture.

Example:

    ShellResult res = Shell.exec ("git status --short");
    if (res.isSuccess ()) {
        print ("%s\n", res.stdout ());
    }

Namespace: Vala.Io

Package: Valacore

Content:

Static methods:

public static ShellResult exec (string command)

Executes a command and captures stdout/stderr.

public static ShellResult execQuiet (string command)

Executes a command and discards captured output in the result object.

public static Result<ShellResult,Error> execWithTimeout (string command, Duration timeout)

Executes a command with timeout.

public static ShellResult pipe (string[] commands)

Executes multiple commands as a shell pipeline.

public static Path? which (string binary)

Resolves command path from current PATH.

Creation methods:

public Shell ()

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

Shell