Can I rely on the presence of shell()?

Question

std.process has a nice shell() function.

import std.process;
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
    string Output = shell("ls .");
    writeln("The contents of this directory are:");
    write(Output);
}

It is documented in the Phobos source, but not online. This makes me a little hesitant to use it in real code. Is it experimental and unstable, or are the online docs just falling behind?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '11 at 00:59

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The problem is the documentation generation. You can safely use that function, it's not going away.

I'll file this bug.

answered Dec 01 '11 at 00:59

Andrej Mitrović

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Fixed for the next release (dmd 2.057). – Jonathan M Davis Dec 11 '11 at 07:56

Can I rely on the presence of shell()?

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