using an xbmc script to call unix commands and display them the results ?

[schneidz]

hi, is it possible to run commands from within xbmc using a script.

would i be able to list the contents returned from ls by using this code:xbmc.executebuiltin("XBMC.RunScript(ls,$HOME)")

is there a way to show the contents returned from ls by using os.system() within xbmc ?

thanks,

[althekiller]

You want os.popen().

[Temhil]

Here a function we did for the Installer Passion-XBMC script in order to list the content of a directory:


import os
def listDirFiles( path):
"""
List the files of a directory
@param path:
"""
print "listDirFiles: content of directory: %s"%path
dirList = os.listdir( str( path ) )

return dirList

This will work on every OS including linux

[Temhil]

As althekiller said, if you want to get the STDOUT from the execution of external commands. Rather than use os.system(), use os.popen(), like so:
import os
stdout_handle = os.popen("echo something", "r")
text = stdout_handle.read()

[schneidz]

^ thanks, i guess what i was looking for was something like a hello world example