Apples and oranges. As before, you're talking about the capabilities of the environment in which it is running, not the capabilities of the program.
Further. how do you handle the case where you want to use the output of one command as the source for a script and the output of a different command as the input to the script. Adding Rube Goldberg features to Rexx instead of writing simple wrappers maximaly violates the Unix tradition you cited. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scripting REXX thought -- inspiration or insanity? On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:59:06 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> It's the UNIX tradition. https colon//http://secure-web.cisco.com/1M_2EXcoLWPN-8aW9ElazoTowG-ebLU4SfxW1ZrKYM7sxHV3rpFiVkqwdejr3RMA-uhOdn7F9wIwFXcqinI-yb3d6Pe8GFIj24vIJe2o4E7gkn9bU3uV3RjUtIaFQcyCTg2A7MYZJd8h0O0eJGIBnVWe6QJ4IcUH4yXKoyWvrErfPM549douPzOLxMY54UHJudybB_ujaaivu1O1Lhl1510PwRFegFUT5TGRDZDr-J0vQCpHhYbPk-e-oAyp7kFqaxV-nCbKjPUJo60GgwV4ldey1bUCiD_JsuAFl0vwInk1UpwJ0e0mufJlbv6BoC8ahm07Acouycgc82ZhV46tsdBH4q0izpRWwbA-S4zirddZuLmIC7GNFJ3HMH8ZzdeH-65kxSGP1mbYKNecd6BE28KUhtK-Im9N6geHFOu-6nCMaLM93MI5Z3X34u8Vcdqgv/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fquotes%2F353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored The operant qualifier is "foolish". >Can you pipe the output of a Unix command to IRXJCL? shell syntax? > Not shell, but with Rexx: SYSCALL pipe; BPXWDYN( 'alloc dd(SYSTSIN) ...' ); ATTCHMVS; and, yes, that's SYSTSIN, not SYSEXEC. >Is there a compelling need to do that? > No. >So does foo | rexx bar, but neither one treats the output of foo as Rexx code > With a little shell redirection, it's easy with Regina. > It makes most sense if someone else writes that wrapper. > With a little shell redirection, it's easy with Regina. >You are someone. > But not someone *else*. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
