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<h1 id="external-commands">External commands</h1>
<p>As a part of the software configuration, you may want to get extra
data by running external commands. The basic syntax is the following.</p>
<pre><code class="language-meson">r = run_command('command', 'arg1', 'arg2', 'arg3', check: true)
output = r.stdout().strip()
errortxt = r.stderr().strip()
</code></pre>
<p>If <code>check: true</code> is given, meson will error out if <code>command</code> returns with a
non-zero exit code. Alternatively, you can set <code>check: false</code> and get the exit
code with <code>r.returncode()</code>.</p>
<p>Since 0.52.0, you can pass the command environment as a dictionary:</p>
<pre><code class="language-meson">run_command('command', 'arg1', 'arg2', env: {'FOO': 'bar'}, check: true)
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<p>Since 0.50.0, you can also pass the command <a href="Reference-manual_returned_env.html"><ins><code>env</code></ins></a> object:</p>
<pre><code class="language-meson">env = environment()
env.set('FOO', 'bar')
run_command('command', 'arg1', 'arg2', env: env)
</code></pre>
<p>The <code>run_command</code> function returns an object that can be queried for
return value and text written to stdout and stderr. The <code>strip</code> method
call is used to strip trailing and leading whitespace from strings.
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is, calling <code>run_command('do_something foo bar')</code> will not work. You
must either split up the string into separate arguments or pass the
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pass the command to the shell, so any command lines that try to use
things such as environment variables, backticks or pipelines will not
work. If you require shell semantics, write your command into a script
file and call that with <code>run_command</code>.</p>
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