Adding system commands

Change brings opportunity.

-Nido Qubein

Yesterday, I received an interesting question from rambler on this blog. He asked if TBS supports system calls. I had to answer no, because I forgot to add them...


However, in TBS alpha-2 system commands will be available with a new system function called "system". This function returns the output of a command you give as an argument. As an example, I ran the following script:

!out(~!system(~"whereis tbs"));

_die();

And I got the following output(as expected):

tbs: /usr/bin/tbs

And, as you probably would expect, the following:

!out(~!system(~"sudo gedit"));

_die();

Asks for the password for sudo and then runs gedit as root. So that works.