Display output from command-line program

[fraktal]

Er, what it says on the tin, basically! It would be useful to have a really simple plugin that runs a command line (or BAT file) every [programmable period] and then returns the output...which could then, if necessary, be formatted by formatting and string plugins etc.
For an experienced coder it would probably take a couple hours...?

[fraktal]

Well, for anyone else who's suffering the same problem, you can work around it by finding some way of automating the running of the program and piping the output to a text file (it's as simple as "ping [parameters] >> ping.txt") and then using the $File command to show it.