Scala Process Library

process.scala

import scala.sys.process._
import java.io._

// Run a Process, return the output as a String
Process("echo foo") !!

// Run a Process, pipe in some input, and return the output as a String
Process("cat") #< (new ByteArrayInputStream("foobar".getBytes("UTF-8"))) !!

// Run a Process, pipe in some input, and pipe the output to a Array[Byte]
val output = new ByteArrayOutputStream
Process("cat") #< (new ByteArrayInputStream("foobar".getBytes("UTF-8"))) #> output !
output.toByteArray


// Scala Process Library Operators:
// ! - run the process, return the exit code as an Int
// !! - run the process, return the output as a String
// #< - pipe into the process
// #> - pipe out from the process