Question

I am working on an application using MonoDevelop in Ubuntu. Through this application I need to run a terminal command and capture it’s output. Is such thing possible? Any help/ideas will be appreciated!

What I mean is, if user clicks on a button, the command will be run and the output will be displayed in a text box or something. I don’t want a terminal window pop-up, this action should be entirely done inside the application.

Answer 1

In C# Windows you would do this:

Process p = new Process(); // Redirect the output stream of the child process.
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "program.exe"; 
p.Start();  // Do not wait for the child process to exit before reading to the end of its     redirected stream.
p.WaitForExit(); // Read the output stream first and then wait.
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
p.WaitForExit();