system

[procedure] system command

ChezScheme: Run command in separate process, waiting for it to terminate. See Concept:Process

See also process, run-process, sys-system

Scheme48 also has this. See have-system?.

Guile, STk, STklos also have this.

[procedure] system command ...

Bigloo: appends all arguments, then runs it in separate process. Returns an integer. See also system->string