Use a variable in a shell command in a Scala program (not REPL) - scala

Question

Inside a program - not the REPL - is it possible to introduce a string variable to represent the shell command to be executed ?
import sys.process._
val npath = opath.substring(0,opath.lastIndexOf("/"))
s"rm -rf $npath/*" !
s"mv $tmpName/* $npath/" !
The compiler says:
:103: error: type mismatch;
found : String
required: scala.sys.process.ProcessLogger
s"mv $tmpName/* $npath/" !
^
Note that in the REPL this can be fixed by using
:power
But .. we're not in the REPL here.

Answer 1

I found a useful workaround that mostly preserves the intended structure:
Use the
Seq[String].!
syntax. But by using spaces as a delimiter we can still write it out in a kind of wysiwig way
import sys.process._
val npath = opath.substring(0,opath.lastIndexOf("/"))
s"rm -rf $npath/*".split(" ").toSeq.!
s"mv $tmpName/* $npath/".split(" ").toSeq.!
The limitation here is that embedded spaces in the command would not work - they would require an explicit Seq of each portion of the command.
Here is a bit nicer if there were a set of commands to run:
Seq(s"rm -rf $npath/*",s"mv $tmpName/* $npath/").foreach{ cmd=>
println(cmd)
cmd.split(" ").toSeq.!
}