From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make guix commands pipeable
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:21:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h7l4vmc7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210320121353.0e568c7a@runbox.com>
Hi,
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 at 12:13, pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to pipe files into guix commands.
Well, this work:
guix search hello | recsel -C -P name | xargs guix build
> Specifically the `guix system build` command, so I can build a system
> configuration on a remote Guix system over SSH, i.e. `cat config.scm |
> ssh <remote-system> guix system build -`, or perhaps using the
> `--expression` flag which would make more sense, e.g. `cat config.scm |
> ssh <remote-system> guix system build -e -`.
Does “cat config.scm | ssh <remote> xargs -0 guix system -e” work?
Indeed, maybe some commands are expecting a real file and cannot read
from stdin.
Cheers,
simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-21 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-20 12:13 Make guix commands pipeable pkill9
2021-03-20 19:15 ` david larsson
2021-03-21 22:15 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-24 0:01 ` pkill9
2021-03-24 0:03 ` pkill9
2021-03-21 10:21 ` zimoun [this message]
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