exec function:

• Can also be called as execute

Execute an external process and wait for it's completion. If all the arguments are strings run a process with that list. The result is an object with:

• success Boolean to indicate if the process was successful.
• exit_code The process exit code.
• raw_stdout The standard output of the process encode as BASE64.
• stdout The standard output as text.
• raw_stderr The standard error of the process encode as BASE64.
• stderr The standard error as text.

Examples:

• running: (exec "echo", "hello", "world") will give: {"success": true, "exit_code": 0, "raw_stdout": "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQK", "stdout": "hello world\n", "raw_stderr": "", "stderr": ""}

• running: (exec "cat", "no such file") will give: {"success": false, "exit_code": 1, "raw_stdout": "", "stdout": "", "raw_stderr": "Y2F0OiAnbm8gc3VjaCBmaWxlJzogTm8gc3VjaCBmaWxlIG9yIGRpcmVjdG9yeQo=", "stderr": "cat: 'no such file': No such file or directory\n"}

• running: (exec "no such exec") will return nothing

• running: (exec 23) will return nothing Because 23 is not a string

• running: (exec "echo", 23) will return nothing Because 23 is not a string