Running a subprocess with Dart and reading its output

Starting a foreign program, and reading its standard output stream is useful, and here is an example of listing the root directory.

void main() {
  Process p = new Process('/bin/ls', ['/']);
  p.start();
  StringInputStream stdoutStream = new StringInputStream(p.stdout);
  print(stdoutStream.read());
  p.close();
}

Notes:

• Argument list does not include the executable name like it usually does
• Use a StringInputStream to read an InputStream as a String
• Close the process or the script will hang forever

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