Getting output of a shell script in Cocoa

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Published on 2010-05-16T05:32:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 5:40 UTC
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Is there a way that lets me run a shell script, and display the output in an NSTextView? I do not want any input from the user to the shell script at all, since is is just called to compile a buch of files. The shell script part works fine so far, but I just can't figure out how to run it and show the output in an NSTextView. I know a shell script can be run using system() and NSTask, but how do I get it's output into an NSTextView?

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