In MOROS Lisp the (shell <cmd>) function returns the exit status of the command, and now we can capture the output of the command with (shell->binary <cmd>):

~
> lisp
MOROS Lisp v0.7.0

> (str/trim (bin->str (shell->binary "date")))
"2026-04-01 20:09:20 +0200"

When the draw command was introduced in #790 with the option to display the result of a command at periodic intervals we used a redirection to a temporary file, which resulted in changes needed to better handle file deletions in #820, but now we can skip the temporary file and just use a pipe.

And now, command substitutions in the shell!

~
> copy hello.txt hello-$(date %Y%m%d)-$(date %H%M%S).txt

~
> list
14 2026-04-01 18:01:42 hello-20260401-180142.txt
14 2026-04-01 17:12:52 hello.txt