juce::ChildProcess does not run osascript command to install pkg on macOS

[reuk]

There was a post the other day where the solution seemed to be to split the arguments up using a StringArray:

ChildProcess: How to pipe commands bash-style

I’ve been trying to execute some command-line programs from JUCE with pipes such as ps aux | grep chrome and I want to launch it with juce::ChildProcess. Somethin’ like: juce::ChildProcess cp; cp.start ("ps aux | grep chrome"); juce::String output = cp.readAllProcessOutput(); DBG ("Command Output:\n" + output + "\n"); uint32 exitCode = cp.getExitCode(); Problem is, the juce::ChildProcess does not seem to recognize the pipe character “|” as I am expecting. For the varying piped commands I…

Maybe something like this (untested)?

StringArray { "osascript", "-e", "do shell script \"sudo installer -pkg /path/to/some.pkg -target /\" with administrator privileges" };