On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 08:19:41AM +0200, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > Le 28 juin 2014 01:18, "David T. Lewis" <le...@mail.msen.com> a ??crit : > > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:50:11PM +0200, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > > > Thanks. > > > > > > But this would give me the 200 last chars. I am interested in the 200 > last > > > lines. > > > > > > Now, I did this: > > > > > > command := 'tac ', file fullName, ' | head -200'. > > > ^ (PipeableOSProcess command: command) output. > > > > > > which did the trick but isn't portable at all (Linux here). > > > > <OT> > > Don't forget to close the pipes on that PipeableOSProcess when you are > done using it :-) > > </OT> > > Isn't output closing them? Command is a complete string here. >
No, one pipe handle will still be open. Use #closePipes to close it. PipeableOSProcess is designed to participate in a "pipeline" of commands, and in that environment each element of the pipeline is responsible for closing the pipe from its predecessor. Dave
