[3R1C]

Well, I'm going over this problem in my head, and all the ideas I'm coming up with seem awfully convoluted...

What I want to do is this: Take the output of a shell command such as 'who' executed via NSTask and slap it into an NSArray so's I can read it into a table. It SEEMS like this should to be really simple but being a newbie has me stumped. Does anyone know of any examples of parsed NSTask output I could l look at? Like an opensource app that is known to take the output of some shell command and put it into a table?

[CharlesS]

Use an NSPipe and an NSFileHandle. Get an NSData from these and parse it. You can find details at http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/.

[lindberg]

An example from modifying some of my code...

This uses /bin/sh -c to execute the command, which treats the string as if it was typed onto the command line. You may very well find it easier to just set the launchPath and arguments directly to what you want to run.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
NSArray *LinesByExecutingCommand(NSString *command)
{
NSPipe *pipe = [[NSPipe alloc] init];
NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
NSData *output;
NSString *stringOutput;

[task setLaunchPath:<font color = orange>@"/bin/sh"</font>];
[task setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:<font color = orange>@"-c"</font>, command, nil]];
[task setStandardOutputipe];
[task launch];

output = [[pipe fileHandleForReading] readDataToEndOfFile];
[task waitUntilExit];
[pipe release];
[task release];

<font color = brown>//[NSString stringWithCString:[output bytes] length:[output length]]</font>
<font color = brown>//would also work, but with the following you can put in a different</font>
<font color = brown>//string encoding if you know any better what the output will be</font>
<font color = brown>//(it'll be NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding by default).</font>
stringOutput = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:output encoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]] autorelease];

return [stringOutput componentsSeparatedByString:<font color = orange>@"\n"</font>];
}
</font>[/code]

[3R1C]

Sorry guys, I'm so new that the code above doesn't appear to put the output into an array so it can go into a table. Could someone direct me to this magical line of code. Most of what else is there is what I already have. The part that has me stumped is parsing the output into a table.

God I'm st00pid. I can see now that the code above does put it into an array, line by line. My limited cocoa knowledge leads me to believe that my next step is to 'enumerate' thru the array and put it into the table.

[ 05-08-2002: Message edited by: 3R1C ]

[serversurfer]

Who are you calling "limited"?