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Task/Execute-a-system-command/Pike/execute-a-system-command.pike

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+int main(){
+   // Process.run was added in Pike 7.8 as a wrapper to simplify the use of Process.create_process()
+   mapping response = Process.run("ls -l");
+   // response is now a map containing 3 fields
+   // stderr, stdout, and exitcode. We want stdout.
+   write(response["stdout"] + "\n");
+
+   // with older versions of pike it's a bit more complicated:
+   Stdio.File stdout = Stdio.File();
+   Process.create_process(({"ls", "-l"}), ([ "stdout" : stdout->pipe() ]) );
+   write(stdout->read() + "\n");
+}