fork, exec和wait应该有用，如果你不是在寻找Objective-C特定的方法。Fork创建当前运行程序的副本，exec用一个新程序替换当前运行的程序，然后wait等待子进程退出。例如(没有任何错误检查):

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

pid_t p = fork();
if (p == 0) {
    /* fork returns 0 in the child process. */
    execl("/other/program/to/run", "/other/program/to/run", "foo", NULL);
} else {
    /* fork returns the child's PID in the parent. */
    int status;
    wait(&status);
    /* The child has exited, and status contains the way it exited. */
}

/* The child has run and exited by the time execution gets to here. */

还有一个系统，它运行命令，就像您从shell的命令行输入命令一样。这样更简单，但你对情况的控制力更弱。

我假设你正在使用一个Mac应用程序，所以这些链接指向苹果关于这些函数的文档，但它们都是POSIX，所以你应该在任何POSIX兼容的系统上使用它们。

除了上面的几个出色的答案之外，我还使用以下代码在后台处理命令的输出，并避免[file readDataToEndOfFile]的阻塞机制。

- (void)runCommand:(NSString *)commandToRun
{
    NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
    [task setLaunchPath:@"/bin/sh"];

    NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                          @"-c" ,
                          [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", commandToRun],
                          nil];
    NSLog(@"run command:%@", commandToRun);
    [task setArguments:arguments];

    NSPipe *pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
    [task setStandardOutput:pipe];

    NSFileHandle *file = [pipe fileHandleForReading];

    [task launch];

    [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(collectTaskOutput:) withObject:file];
}

- (void)collectTaskOutput:(NSFileHandle *)file
{
    NSData      *data;
    do
    {
        data = [file availableData];
        NSLog(@"%@", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] );

    } while ([data length] > 0); // [file availableData] Returns empty data when the pipe was closed

    // Task has stopped
    [file closeFile];
}

fork, exec和wait应该有用，如果你不是在寻找Objective-C特定的方法。Fork创建当前运行程序的副本，exec用一个新程序替换当前运行的程序，然后wait等待子进程退出。例如(没有任何错误检查):

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

pid_t p = fork();
if (p == 0) {
    /* fork returns 0 in the child process. */
    execl("/other/program/to/run", "/other/program/to/run", "foo", NULL);
} else {
    /* fork returns the child's PID in the parent. */
    int status;
    wait(&status);
    /* The child has exited, and status contains the way it exited. */
}

/* The child has run and exited by the time execution gets to here. */

还有一个系统，它运行命令，就像您从shell的命令行输入命令一样。这样更简单，但你对情况的控制力更弱。

我假设你正在使用一个Mac应用程序，所以这些链接指向苹果关于这些函数的文档，但它们都是POSIX，所以你应该在任何POSIX兼容的系统上使用它们。

或者因为Objective C只是C，上面有一些OO层，你可以使用posix对等物:

int execl(const char *path, const char *arg0, ..., const char *argn, (char *)0);
int execle(const char *path, const char *arg0, ..., const char *argn, (char *)0, char *const envp[]);
int execlp(const char *file, const char *arg0, ..., const char *argn, (char *)0);
int execlpe(const char *file, const char *arg0, ..., const char *argn, (char *)0, char *const envp[]);
int execv(const char *path, char *const argv[]);
int execve(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
int execvp(const char *file, char *const argv[]);
int execvpe(const char *file, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]); 

它们包含在unistd.h头文件中。

Objective-C (Swift见下文)

清理顶部答案中的代码，使其更具可读性，减少冗余，增加单行方法的好处，并使其成为NSString类别

@interface NSString (ShellExecution)
- (NSString*)runAsCommand;
@end

实现:

@implementation NSString (ShellExecution)

- (NSString*)runAsCommand {
    NSPipe* pipe = [NSPipe pipe];

    NSTask* task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
    [task setLaunchPath: @"/bin/sh"];
    [task setArguments:@[@"-c", [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", self]]];
    [task setStandardOutput:pipe];

    NSFileHandle* file = [pipe fileHandleForReading];
    [task launch];

    return [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[file readDataToEndOfFile] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}

@end

用法:

NSString* output = [@"echo hello" runAsCommand];

如果你在输出编码方面有问题:

// Had problems with `lsof` output and Japanese-named files, this fixed it
NSString* output = [@"export LANG=en_US.UTF-8;echo hello" runAsCommand];

希望它对你和未来的我一样有用。(嗨,你!)

斯威夫特4

下面是一个使用管道、进程和字符串的Swift示例

extension String {
    func run() -> String? {
        let pipe = Pipe()
        let process = Process()
        process.launchPath = "/bin/sh"
        process.arguments = ["-c", self]
        process.standardOutput = pipe

        let fileHandle = pipe.fileHandleForReading
        process.launch()

        return String(data: fileHandle.readDataToEndOfFile(), encoding: .utf8)
    }
}

用法:

let output = "echo hello".run()

如果终端命令需要管理员权限(又名sudo)，请使用AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges代替。 下面将创建一个名为“com.stackoverflow”的文件。test是根目录“/System/Library/Caches”。

AuthorizationRef authorizationRef;
FILE *pipe = NULL;
OSStatus err = AuthorizationCreate(nil,
                                   kAuthorizationEmptyEnvironment,
                                   kAuthorizationFlagDefaults,
                                   &authorizationRef);

char *command= "/usr/bin/touch";
char *args[] = {"/System/Library/Caches/com.stackoverflow.test", nil};

err = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(authorizationRef,
                                         command,
                                         kAuthorizationFlagDefaults,
                                         args,
                                         &pipe);