Get The Text Output From An External Command In Rust
use std::process::Command;
fn main() {
let args = vec!["-l"];
let response = Command::new("ls")
.args(args)
.output()
.expect("did not work");
let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&response.stdout);
dbg!(text);
}
Notes
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The default that comes back from output is a
Vec-u8-
that has to be turned into a string to output it if you want to see it as letters. - I wouldn't be surprised to find other ways to do this.
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