How to get the shell function's output in slime?

Question

In REPL, we can get its output normally:

(shell "head -3 ~/misc.lisp")
(asdf:make-build 'stumpwm :type :program :monolithic t
             :move-here "."
             :name-suffix ""

However, we get nil from (shell "head -3 ~/misc.lisp") in slime.

Sincerely!

Answer 1

use #'run-shell-command instead of shell:

(let ((str (ext:run-shell-command cmd :output :stream)))
    (loop  for line = (read-line str  nil)
        until (null line)
        do (print line)))

it works now.

Answer 2

I don't know which Lisp implementation you're using, but normally you should need a package to run shell command like:

• trivial-shell
• inferior-shell
• clesh (build on top of trivial-shell)