For your information, using "tr" instead of "xargs echo" should remove the string size limit, since the string isn't passed as argument :
echo ' if something == anything then do_something end ' | tr '\n' ' ' | awesome-client 2010/12/16 Manner Robert <rma...@gmail.com>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I had an idea about moving part of my rc.lua functionality into scripts > running through awesome-client. However, as I see awesome-client is > sending the commands line by line, so what I send through it has to have > a meaning for each line. This makes it somehow limited and unsuitable > for this purpose. > > Here is an example, I would do: > > echo " > if something == anything then > do_something > end > " | awesome-client > > It says for the first line that "error end is missing", executes the > second line, and says another error for the 3rd. This can be overcome by > sending it in one line since lua is quite flexible about newlines :) > > echo " > if something == anything then > do_something > end > " | xargs echo | awesome-client > > I guess I do not have to explain why I do not like this, it has > limitation on the size of the program as argument count is limited, it > modifies the program (removes quotation marks, apostrophes) etc. > > I am wandering how cool it was if I could write awesome scripts like any > other scripts: > > #! /usr/bin/awesome-client > - -- lua code comes here > > Or, it would be much better if we could communicate with awesome through > a local socket or a pipe and send to it programs to execute. Is this > already possible / do you plan such? > > Thanks for all your work, > > Manner Robert > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNCezMAAoJEFxyEaJhvswtn2YH/0votAXlrr8YiywGVOdtexUB > uUKvh6W026HFKKXQs6VsMlMYira6eQV4UdNypGRptRSlvDG6Slvf+YgHxwFPDnZ8 > Nzr0a01fj+cgIbac8OM9wSSPxArPshZIg711EWgzKEOq+3TjlS0Fh6OubXtZRKK3 > TrVeuAIdQaPEoRFmTHwmY6rYs4mGm/Iro8jHftNVl4YTcyM4WvEW/rDEX8fO1ga+ > iLt7gF9AHbHztbIjaae0zFXBdU9Y4W16b2EBwoVd8htgWzf77Hur+TeClMz8+hLU > M6Fj3sryXdgwEUniWP9M3EhDON657UU0s1PmWvnGPV/t7ciG7BNKcx8sGzsINFk= > =F0Z+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org. > -- Vivian Brégier http://www.are-ata.org/Vivian.vcf -- To unsubscribe, send mail to awesome-unsubscr...@naquadah.org.
