On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, George Brewster wrote:
...
> Yup, I'm on linux. My goal is to have a function which gives me a lazy
> string which is the output of a shell command, and takes a string as
> input. In particular, I'd like the shell command to behave lazily (read
> only as much input as is needed, and write only as much output as
> needed), so things like this work (should terminate and print a few
> lines of "hi"):
>
> main = sh "yes hi" "there" >>= sh "head" >>= putStrLn
Good luck!
> I tried your suggestion out (remove forkIO), and when I do that, this
> example returns but doesn't print anything.
For me, it hangs - since I left the wait in. If I omit the wait, it's
"broken pipe", I think because we're trying to write data to "head"
after it exits.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sh :: String -> String -> IO String
> sh cmd = \input ->
> do (stdin, stdout, _, pid) <- runInteractiveCommand cmd
> forkIO $ hPutStr stdin input >> hClose stdin
> forkIO $ waitForProcess pid >> return ()
> hGetContents stdout
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