Interacting with a console utility

[hhrafn]

I have a console utility I'd like to interact with and get it's output. I can send in a list of commands into it via < like this: myapp < commmands.txt also I can do: myapp "command1 asdf" "command2 asdf" "command3 asdf 223" and so on.. What feature would I use to send commands into it and what would I use to read it's output ? thanks, H

[Colin Angus Mackay]

hhrafn wrote: What feature would I use to send commands into it and what would I use to read it's output ? Console.Read() and Console.ReadLine() to read in commands. What do you mean by "read it's output"? What is going to read what output?

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[hhrafn]

Let's say I'm interacting with the utility "dir" i'd like to do as my command: "dir " + strMyDir and then read the output from this command and parse it to my likeing :)

[Colin Angus Mackay]

You can use the Process[^] class to launch commands and read their output. Also, I'm assuming that dir is just an example because you know that you can use the FileInfo and DirectoryInfo classes much more effectively than parsing text from the dir command.

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[hhrafn]

Yes, thanks. :-D