On 14/06/19 10:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 5:53 AM Henri Menke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear devs, >> >> It would be great if LuaTeX accepted piped input. Currently a command >> like >> >> texlua <(echo 'print "Hello"') >> >> fails with an error like "Script file /dev/fd/63 not found". I have >> attached a simple patch which would eliminate the failure. >> >> Cheers, Henri >> > > Does it work also in Windows ? > (I think so ) >
LuaTeX uses sys/stat.h which requires POSIX, so if running in a POSIX environment (e.g. Cygwin) it should work. Natively I don't think it works. (does Windows even have pipes?) I can't test it because I don't have a Windows machine. Cheers, Henri
