Comparison of Programming Languages (basic Instructions) - Execution of Commands

Execution of Commands

Shell command Execute program Replace current program with new executed program
C system("command"); execl(path, args); or
execv(path, arglist);
C++
Objective-C ;
C# System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path, argstring);
F#
Go exec.Run(path, argv, envv, dir, exec.DevNull, exec.DevNull, exec.DevNull) os.Exec(path, argv, envv)
Visual Basic Interaction.Shell(command «, WindowStyle» «, isWaitOnReturn»)
Visual Basic .NET Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Shell(command «, WindowStyle» «, isWaitOnReturn») System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path, argstring)
D std.process.system("command"); std.process.execv(path, arglist);
Java Runtime.exec(command); or
new ProcessBuilder(command).start;
JavaScript
WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell").Run(command «, WindowStyle» «, isWaitOnReturn»); WshShell.Exec(command)
Common Lisp (shell command)
Scheme (system command)
ISLISP
Pascal system(command);
OCaml Sys.command command, Unix.open_process_full command env (stdout, stdin, stderr),... Unix.create_process prog args new_stdin new_stdout new_stderr, ... Unix.execv prog args or
Unix.execve prog args env
Standard ML OS.Process.system command Unix.execute (path, args) Posix.Process.exec (path, args)
Haskell (GHC) System.system command System.Process.runProcess path args ... Posix.Process.executeFile path True args ...
Perl system(command) or
$output = `command`
exec(path, args)
Ruby system(command) or
output = `command`
exec(path, args)
PHP system(command) or
$output = `command` or
exec(command) or
passthru(command)
Python os.system(command) or
subprocess.Popen(command)
os.execv(path, args)
S-Lang system(command)
Fortran CALL SYSTEM (command, status) or
status = SYSTEM (command)
Windows PowerShell ::Start(command) «Invoke-Item »program arg1 arg2 …

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