macOS Accessing Terminal From Cocoa?

[DavidCar]

I want to try monitoring some system statistics from a cocoa program. I don't know much about Terminal, but I'm wondering if I can issue a terminal command from cocoa and get back a string as a response. Then I can scan the string for what I want.

If I knew where to start looking in the documentation I could go from there. Thanks.

DC

 

[HexMonkey]

Cocoa Dev Central has a couple of useful tutorials about this. The first is an example of writing a wrapper to the wget command. The second shows how to get the output of a command (in this case, the ls command).

You might also like to look at the documentation for NSTask and NSPipe.

 

[DavidCar]

Cocoa Dev Central has a couple of useful tutorials about this. The first is an example of writing a wrapper to the wget command. The second shows how to get the output of a command (in this case, the ls command).

You might also like to look at the documentation for NSTask and NSPipe.

Excellent! It would have taken me a while to find those references.

Thanks.
DC