ASHELL: Stata module to capture output from OS shell command

Nikos Askitas ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: ashell is to be thought of as "another shell" or as "alternative" or "additional" shell. If you were at some point frustrated to find out that there is no way to capture the output of an OS command (one you submit by using stata's shell command) into a stata variable so that you can reformat it and reuse it or parts of it later then this is the module that solves your problem. It kind of adds to stata's shell command a feature like perl's backticks where you write something like "array = `os_command`" and your array contains the output of os_command.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8
Keywords: Unix; Linux; shell commands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-04-13, Revised 2009-02-05
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install ashell". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/a/ashell.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/a/ashell.hlp help file (text/plain)

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