• WhatMeWorry (15/15) Jun 22 2014 After hours of reading (obviously not comprehending) std.process
• =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= (21/33) Jun 22 2014 As I understand it, the returned 'pipe' is used to communicate with the
• John Carter (3/3) Jun 23 2014 Ali, of course, is right. The only thing I'd add is for a

"WhatMeWorry" <kc_heaser yahoo.com> writes:

After hours of reading (obviously not comprehending) std.process 
and looking at code samples, I still can't even do something this 
simple. Open a Windows command line and run miscellaneous 
commands. Only the first command, dir" is shown in the final 
output.

auto pipe = pipeShell("dir", Redirect.all);

pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
pipe.stdin.writeln("whomai");
pipe.stdin.flush();
pipe.stdin.close();
		
foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
     writefln("from shell: %s",str);


I tried putting the wait() command was well in various places. to 
no avail.

=?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 06/22/2014 05:01 PM, WhatMeWorry wrote:
 After hours of reading (obviously not comprehending) std.process and
 looking at code samples, I still can't even do something this simple.
 Open a Windows command line and run miscellaneous commands. Only the
 first command, dir" is shown in the final output.

 auto pipe = pipeShell("dir", Redirect.all);

 pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
 pipe.stdin.writeln("whomai");

Typo: whoami

 pipe.stdin.flush();
 pipe.stdin.close();

 foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
      writefln("from shell: %s",str);


 I tried putting the wait() command was well in various places. to no avail.

As I understand it, the returned 'pipe' is used to communicate with the 
command passed to pipeShell. Since 'dir' does not understand 'cd', 
'whoami', etc. it fails for you.

I tried the following on Linux and it worked. I think you must replace 
"bash" with "cmd" on Windows:

import std.stdio;
import std.process;

void main()
{
     auto pipe = pipeShell("bash", Redirect.all);

     pipe.stdin.writeln("dir");
     pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
     pipe.stdin.writeln("whoami");
     pipe.stdin.flush();
     pipe.stdin.close();

     foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
         writefln("from shell: %s",str);
}

Ali

"John Carter" <john.carter taitradio.com> writes:

Ali, of course, is right. The only thing I'd add is for a 
Windowsy programmer (unless you have cygwin installed) you 
probably want something like "cmd.exe" instead of bash.