Does there exist standard way to run external program in Common Lisp?

Question

In clisp, the following code works:

(defun hit-history () (shell \"tail ssqHitNum.txt\"))

However, in Clozure CL, the shell fu

Answer 1

CL21 defines simple methods:

(in-package :cl21-user)
(use-package :cl21.process)

Then either with run-process or with the #` reader macro:

(run-process '("ls" "-l"))
;-> total 0
;   drwxrwxrwt    5 root         wheel   170 Nov  1 18:00 Shared
;   drwxr-xr-x+ 174 nitro_idiot  staff  5916 Mar  5 21:41 nitro_idiot
;=> #

or

#`ls -l /Users`
;=> "total 0
;   drwxrwxrwt    5 root         wheel   170 Nov  1 18:00 Shared
;   drwxr-xr-x+ 174 nitro_idiot  staff  5916 Mar  5 21:41 nitro_idiot
;   "
;   ""
;   0

The source shows implementation for SBCL and CCL.

• http://cl21.org/
• https://github.com/cl21/cl21/wiki
• https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/cl21.html