Import swift file in script

[nick.keets]

There was some discussion about this in this thread:

Better integration with UNIX tools

Swift is a great shell scripting language except for it's lack of any API to execute UNIX commands. Compare these two shell scripts:

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#!/usr/bin/php <? $files = `find ~/Desktop -name *.png`; foreach (explode("\n", $files) as $file) {   // do something with $file } - #!/usr/bin/swift import Foundation let process = Process() process.launchPath = "/usr/bin/find" process.arguments = [   NSString(string:"~/Desktop").expandingTildeInPath,   "-n…

In my opinion the most promising development is SPM's (internal) Utility module mentioned in the thread.