What the following function will return? ok atom or Cmd?
function_test() ->
Cmd = os:cmd("ls"),
io:format("The result of ls is:~p~n", [Cmd]).
If it returns ok then how it should be rephrased to return Cmd while still using io:format?
In Erlang the last expression in your function is returned, in your case that would be the result of io:format
which is ok
.
To return Cmd
you can simply make it the last expression in your function:
function_test() ->
Cmd = os:cmd("ls"),
io:format("The result of ls is:~p~n", [Cmd]),
Cmd.
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