Run commands in exec/Get stdout from eval/Add some form of command substitution about duckscript

[sagiegurari]

if you want the output, you need to define an output var and use the stdout sub var.
from: https://github.com/sagiegurari/duckscript/blob/master/docs/sdk.md#std__process__Execute

output = exec ls
echo ${output.stdout}
echo ${output.stderr}
echo ${output.code}

however, if you want the list of files in a path as an array, why not use 'ls' command:
https://github.com/sagiegurari/duckscript/blob/master/docs/sdk.md#std__fs__List

or if you want a glob, you can use:
https://github.com/sagiegurari/duckscript/blob/master/docs/sdk.md#std__fs__GlobArray

[JonahPlusPlus]

exec ls is not cross-platform. For me, duckscript tries to run it in what I'm guessing is cmd.exe. Since cmd.exe does not have the ls command, it fails.

I want the list of files in a path as an array, but ls returns a bool, not a handle? I want to be able to capture the output that gets sent to the stdout of my terminal, but there seems to be no way of doing that in duckscript, at least documented.

GlobArray seems to be what I want, thanks. You might want to put a notice of this under ls, since in other script languages, ls is what I would turn to first for something simple as just getting all the files in a directory.

[sagiegurari]

no, there is ls command in duckscript without exec. its built in and returns a list.
did you look at the link i wrote?

[JonahPlusPlus]

Yeah, first, I should clarify, each paragraph I wrote referred to each of your solutions. Your first solution (exec) didn't work cause it looks for ls on the system, not the one provided. The second solution (the link to the built-in ls), doesn't work for me since it just returns true or false when I need the output of it which just prints to the terminal. I can't get stdout or an array from it.

The third solution works, it's what I expect ls to act like (returning an array of paths).

[sagiegurari]

ok got it :)
happy you have a working solution.