From 226eb6554f293ef042298a51d9598ee76891796e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jae Kwon <jae@tendermint.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:55:32 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Support for Run() convenience function

---
 util.go | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 util.go

diff --git a/util.go b/util.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4763ff715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package process
+
+import (
+	. "github.com/tendermint/go-common"
+)
+
+// Runs a command and gets the result.
+func Run(command string, args []string) (string, bool, error) {
+	outFile := NewBufferCloser(nil)
+	proc, err := StartProcess("", command, args, nil, outFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", false, err
+	}
+
+	<-proc.WaitCh
+
+	if proc.ExitState.Success() {
+		return string(outFile.Bytes()), true, nil
+	} else {
+		return string(outFile.Bytes()), false, nil
+	}
+}