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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to run shell command with stream input, to get string output
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 10:38:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190701083833.GA25877@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190701081716.GA11749@protected.rcdrun.com>

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 10:17:16AM +0200, Jean Louis wrote:

[...]

> That one runs only shell command, without the
> input.
> 
> I am looking to something equivalent to shell
> 
> cat | markdown

[...]

Perhaps call-process-region is for you: it passes the current
region as stdin to the invoked process. Cf [1]. If you need
more control (or perhaps an asynchronous process which you can
feed input spoonwise), perhaps [2] is it. But that takes some
"bricolage" :-)

Cheers

[1] Elisp manual 38.3 Creating a Synchronous Process
[2] Elisp manual 38.7 Sending Input to Processes
-- tomás

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-01  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-30 22:32 How to run shell command with stream input, to get string output Jean Louis
2019-07-01  7:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-01  8:17   ` Jean Louis
2019-07-01  8:38     ` tomas [this message]
2019-07-01  9:06       ` Jean Louis
2019-07-01  9:38         ` Robert Pluim
2019-07-01  9:43           ` Jean Louis
2019-07-01 11:12             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-07-01 12:15               ` Jean Louis
2019-07-01  9:10     ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-01  9:24       ` Jean Louis
2019-07-04 19:16         ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-04 20:33           ` Jean Louis
2019-07-04 20:38           ` Jean Louis

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