OK, I got this working. In order to get the correct linefeed characters
for Unix, I had to open the output file in binary mode. Once I did that,
everything worked fine.
Pete
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
> The command is in a variable, eg put shell(myCommand) into myResult. I'm
> thinking it's something other than that though since even if I type the
> command directly into Terminal with the stdin redirection, no output is
> produced.
>
> sqlite3 has a .echo command which prints all the commands to stdin. If I
> put that into the stdin file, what gets displayed is portions of each
> command with no line breaks between them. It sure feels like some sort of
> carriage return problem!
>
> Pete
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>wrote:
>
>> Pete-
>>
>> Sunday, January 8, 2012, 6:54:44 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Those commands all work fine when typed into the program by me but
>> nothing
>> > is written to the output file if I redirect stdin to a file that
>> contains
>> > them.
>>
>> Ah. In that case, are you putting quotes around the shell command?
>> Works here for me.
>>
>> put shell("myprog < /Users/Pete/myfile.txt") into myResult
>>
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>> mwie...@ahsoftware.net
>>
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