I am trying to replicate the bash command mv `ls | head -5` ./subfolder1/
in Rust.
This is meant to move the first five files in a directory and it works fine in the shell. I am using the Command
process builder but the following code fails at runtime:
Command::new("mv")
.current_dir("newdir")
.args(&["`ls | head -5`", "newdir"])
.env("PATH", "/bin")
.spawn()
Output:
mv: cannot stat cannot stat '`ls | head -5`': No such file or directory
CodePudding user response:
As with pretty much all such structures, Command
is a frontend to fork
followed by the exec*
family, meaning it executes one command, it's not a subshell, and it does not delegate to a shell.
If you want to chain multiple commands you will have to run them individually and wire them by hand, though there exist libraries to provide a shell-style interface (with the danger and inefficiencies that implies).
Can't rightly see why you'd bother here though, all of this seems reasonably easy to do with std::fs
(and possibly a smattering of std::env
) e.g.
for entry in fs::read_dir(".")?.take(5) {
let entry = entry?;
fs::rename(entry.path(), dest.join(entry.file_name()))?;
}