running os commands [newbie]

[Harry George]

If you need for some reason to do this via a shell call, a la perl's
backquotes, then see commands.getoutput.

Langa Kentane <LangaK at discoveryhealth.co.za> writes:

> Greetings.
> 
> I want to create a list call dfout[]
> In the list, I want to put the output of the df command.
> How do I go about doing this?  I have been trying to find this in the docs,
> no luck so far.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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