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| author | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2017-02-20 00:05:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2017-02-20 00:05:34 -0800 |
| commit | 237c6e380aebdcbc70bd1c9ecf7d3f6effca2752 (patch) | |
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@@ -46,5 +46,10 @@ which case it defaults to the value returned by a temporary file. @code{system->line} calls @code{system} with @var{command} as argument, redirecting stdout to file @var{tmp}. @code{system->line} returns a string containing the first line of output from @var{tmp}. + +@code{system->line} is intended to be a portable method for getting one-line results +from programs like @code{pwd}, @code{whoami}, @code{hostname}, +@code{which}, @code{identify}, and @code{cksum}. Its behavior when +called with programs which generate lots of output is unspecified. @end defun |