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Revision: 48795
at July 9, 2011 04:53 by zingo
Initial Code 
// We'll save the result in a temp file 
NSString* tempFilePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/MyApplicationLastCrash.txt", NSTemporaryDirectory()];  

// Run the shell script 
NSString* script = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"ls -1t /Users/mini/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/* | grep /MyApplication | head -1 | tr -d '\n' >%@", tempFilePath]; 
system([script UTF8String]);  

// Returns path to last crash report or empty string ( [lastCrash length == 0] ) 
NSString* lastCrash = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:tempFilePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
Initial URL 
http://parmanoir.com/Quickest_Way_to_Shell
Initial Description 
Cocoa provides NSTask to run subprocesses. It can be used to run shell scripts, but all this manual pipe and file handling is a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, for a simple script, we can use the trusty old system and redirect its result to a file.
Initial Title 
Quickest Way to Shell - Use system() instead of NSTask
Initial Tags 
osx
Initial Language 
Objective C