Re: Commandline wrapper: help needed

2007-01-28 Thread Toby
Toby A Inkster wrote: > Hello Toby, excellent name you have there. Why, thank you! > What advantage (if any) does this method have over standard UNIX-style > pipes? The advantage is being able to write my own filters and input/output modules and have as small a granularity as needed (while stan

Re: Commandline wrapper: help needed

2007-01-28 Thread Toby A Inkster
Toby wrote: > Any idea how to improve the script and solve this problem? Hello Toby, excellent name you have there. What advantage (if any) does this method have over standard UNIX-style pipes? -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact -- http://mail.pyth

Commandline wrapper: help needed

2007-01-27 Thread Toby
I'm trying to write a simple commandline wrapper: a script that runs another program as a child and relays unbuffered stdin and stdout to/from the child process, possibly filtering it. The usefulness of such a program lies in the filtering stage, in a possible integration with readline, or in othe