Seconding "-", it's a common way to denote stdin. -mike.
On May 24, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Dane Springmeyer wrote: > Frederik, > > Thanks very much for the suggestion. It was tricky getting the xml from stdin > approach working originally, so I'd like to revisit it to get it working > better. Your idea of passing '-' sounds good, as I've seen that used recently > in useful command line tool to turn html into pdf [1] > > I'll post back when I've made progress. > > Dane > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ > > On May 24, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Dane, >> >> Dane Springmeyer wrote: >>> Latest nik2img adds geotiff output (georeferenced tiff) to the list of >>> one-liner output formats. >> >> While you're at it, I have a little request. nik2img fooled me a number of >> times with this. When I do a normal request: >> >> nik2img map.xml parameter parameter parameter... >> >> it works fine. Then I put this in a shell wrapper like this: >> >> cat list-of-mapfiles | while read mapfile >> do >> nik2img $mapfile parameter parameter parameter ... >> done >> >> and suddenly: Nothing but complaints about not being able to parse the map >> file! >> >> Turns out that somehow nik2img tries to magically detect if a map file can >> be read from stdin; in the second invocation, it actually inherits the pipe >> on stdin from the shell loop and tries to read its map file from stdin. >> >> It would be good if that could be fixed somehow. Maybe by just dropping >> support for reading mapfiles from stdin, or if you want that you should >> explicitly specify "-" on the command line. >> >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapnik-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- [email protected] 415.558.1610 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
