[Glass] Execution a simple "cp command ...

[Dale Henrichs via Glass]

Marten,

At first blush, I agree that this should work ... checking with others 
in engineering to get the real skinny on GsHostProcess ...

Dale

On 06/11/2015 12:12 PM, itlists at schrievkrom.de via Glass wrote:
> ... seems to e pretty difficult ...
>
> I tried stuff like:
>
> GsHostProcess>>mskCopyFile: source to: target
> 	| aGsHostProcess output aWriteStream  |
>
> 	aWriteStream := WriteStream on: String new.
> 	aWriteStream
> 		nextPutAll: '/bin/bash -c ' ;
> 		nextPut: $' ;
> 		nextPutAll: 'cp ' ;
> 		nextPut: $" ;
> 		nextPutAll: source asString ;
> 		nextPut: $" ;
> 		space ;
> 		nextPut: $" ;
> 		nextPutAll: target asString ;
> 		nextPut: $" ;
> 		nextPut: $' .
>
> 	Transcript cr ; show: aWriteStream contents.
>
> 	aGsHostProcess := GsHostProcess fork: aWriteStream contents.
>          ....
>
> When executing stuff like
>
>    GsHostProcess
>      mskCopyFile:  '/var/www/fileswebcati/customers/test.txt'
>      to:  '/var/www/fileswebcati/customers/test2.txt'
>
> the following command is printed on the Transcript:
>
> /bin/bash -c 'cp "/var/www/fileswebcati/customers/test.txt"
> "/var/www/fileswebcati/customers/test2.txt"'
>
> executing it in a real shell: everything is ok.
>
> So: anyone telling me, how a simple "cp"  can be executed under Gemstone ...
>
>
> Marten
>
>