Re: Command Line Processing / Pipes

Hi Chris,

Sorry, I forgot about ‘cat’ being a non-standard cmd. It’s on this
machine as part of Cygwin. The one liner you gave me works great. It can
accept filenames as arguments and STDIN via a pipe. Howerver, what I am
going to be doing is too complex for a one line script so I will need to
put it in a .rb file. I thought the equivalent of the ‘-n -e “print”’
one liner would be:

while gets()
	print
end

but, when I put this in a file called parser.rb and try

type input.txt | parser.rb

I get the following:

The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
c:/scripts/parser.rb:1:in `gets': Bad file descriptor

(Errno::EBADF)
from c:/scripts/parser.rb:1

Thanks,
Stu

Maybe its a Cygwin thing, the following:

type subseq.rb | ruby pipe-test.rb

works fine for me.

pipe-test.rb is :
=begin
can pipe to scipt on Win ??
i.e. dos>type file.txt | ruby -w pipe-test.rb
=end
while gets()
print
end

Is the ruby a Cygwin build?

On 5/18/06, Stuart H. [email protected] wrote:

            print

(Errno::EBADF)
from c:/scripts/parser.rb:1

Thanks,
Stu

What happens if you do:

type input.txt | ruby parser.rb

?

I think the point may be that you have to call the ruby interpreter
explicitly, rather than relying on windows file associations to do the
right thing when there’s a pipe involved.

-A

It’s getting to ruby if a ruby exception is being thrown.

Does it work w/ perl or any other language? (just curious) I would
think that it woudlnt.

A LeDonne schrieb:

What happens if you do:

type input.txt | ruby parser.rb

Thank you, this did it for me on Windows 2000 with the one click
installer:

type r.rb | r.rb
r.rb:1:in `readlines’: Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)

type r.rb | ruby r.rb
[“p ARGF.readlines\n”]

r.rb r.rb
[“p ARGF.readlines\n”]

Regards,
Pit