Executing a shell command from Common Lisp

Question

How can i execute a shell (bash) command within a Common Lisp program and assign the output to a variable?

Answer 1

ITA has released inferior-shell under their QITAB umbrella project.

Some links of possible interest :

• http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/qitab/inferior-shell.git
• http://common-lisp.net/projects/qitab/
• http://cliki.net/inferior-shell

A git repository is currently hosted at common-lisp.net :

git clone git://common-lisp.net/projects/qitab/inferior-shell.git