OpenEuphoria

Re[2]: Read program from standard input

• Posted by aku at inbox.as Oct 17, 2001
• 386 views

I want to do:

  bzip2 -cd cth.ex.bz2 | ex

so I needn't to make a temporary file.

Or I can hide the source by outputting the program direcly
to ex.exe.

Will it featured in 2.3 ?
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D> Hi Aku,
D> you are correct. EX only runs the file that is on its command line. It never
D> reads from STDIN to get the program source code text.

D> But why do you want to do this?

>> I tried:
>>
>>   ex < cth.ex

D> why not just do ...

D>    ex cth.ex

D> ????
D> Derek.

D> ----- Original Message -----
D> From: <aku at inbox.as>
D> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
D> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:46 PM
D> Subject: Read program from standard input


>>
>> I can not execute an eu program using ex but the
>> program is taken from standard input.
>>
>> I tried:
>>
>>   ex < cth.ex
>>   type cth.ex | ex
>>
>>   ex con < cth.ex
>>   type cth.ex | ex con
>>
>> but fails.
>>
>> How can I do that?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>