[Haskell-cafe] "piping" to system call

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 23, at 7:55, Marc Weber wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:56PM +0200, Janis Voigtlaender wrote:
>> assume I have a program taking input from stdin. How do I call it  
>> from
>> Haskell while feeding to it a string as input.
>
> Sure, have a look at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/process/1.0.0.0/doc/html/System-Process.html#v 
> :runInteractiveProcess
>
>        rnuInteractiveCommand does would you want
>        (in,out,err,pId) <- runInteractiveProcess "cat" ...
>        hPutStrLn "test" in
>        hClose in
>        outContents <- hGetContents out
>        print outContents


Note that this will deadlock if either the input or the output is too  
long; you should forkIO a thread to do either the input or the output.

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