[fpc-devel] Running programs with output redirection

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Ludo Brands schrieb:

> Start the shell instead of diff:
> 
>   exec('cmd','/c diff -r dir1 dir2 > diff.txt');
> 
> The /c tells the shell to execute the command and exit immediately.

Thanks, this comes close to what I had in mind :-)

But it looks quite platform dependent, like my other idea of invoking a 
shell script. Now I'll give TProcess and pipes an try...

DoDi