[erlang-questions] How to start an erlang applications from the command line non-interactively?

Edwin Fine erlang-questions_efine@REDACTED
Tue May 6 15:51:10 CEST 2008


As I said in my post on this topic,


 "This can be nasty to get right. It depends on how the command line
 interprets characters like single quote and double quote.
 It also depends on whether you use -s or -run."

 On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Bengt Kleberg


<bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
 > Greetings,
 >
 >  You are correct, it does depend upon the shell. I did not see you
 >  mentioning this is the original email. That is why I asked.
 >
 >  I use rc (see http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/rc.html or if you are
 >  patient http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/rc.html).
 >
 >
 >  bengt
 >
 >
 >
 >  On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:35 +0200, Hynek Vychodil wrote:
 >  > There is not difference between ' and " from called program point of
 >  > view. Both strings are passed as one argv zero byte terminated string.
 >  > Program can't get knowledge which sort of quotes was used. There is
 >  > only difference from shell's point of view. What sort of shell you
 >  > use?
 >  >
 >  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Bengt Kleberg
 >  > <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
 >  >         Greetings,
 >  >
 >  >         Are you sure about
 >  >         erl -s foo Jarrod 12345 "This is a string"
 >  >
 >  >         resulting in
 >  >         Name: 'Jarrod', Int: 12345, Str: "This is a string"
 >  >
 >  >         ?
 >  >
 >  >         On my machine I have to use
 >  >         erl -s foo Jarrod 12345 'This is a string'
 >  >
 >  >         Note the ' instead of ".
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >         When choosing between -s and -run, IMHO -run is better
 >  >         integrated with
 >  >         unix than -s (C does not have atoms).
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >         bengt
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >         On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 17:54 -0400, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
 >  >         >
 >  >         >
 >  >         > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Edwin Fine
 >  >         > <erlang-questions_efine@REDACTED> wrote:
 >  >         >         > I have a function start(Port, Htdocs) that I want
 >  >         to call
 >  >         >         with 8888,
 >  >         >         > "C:/htdocs" and I can't figure out what the
 >  >         appropriate
 >  >         >         syntax should be.
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         This can be nasty to get right. It depends on how
 >  >         the command
 >  >         >         line
 >  >         >         interprets characters like single quote and double
 >  >         quote.
 >  >         >         It also depends on whether you use -s or -run.
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         -s interprets all function arguments as atoms, so
 >  >         your program
 >  >         >         will
 >  >         >         get all the values as atoms. You will usually need
 >  >         to write a
 >  >         >         special
 >  >         >         MFA to convert the atoms to the actual types of the
 >  >         parameters
 >  >         >         desired. Note that all arguments get passed in a
 >  >         single list
 >  >         >         when
 >  >         >         called like this (see start_cmd_line/3).
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         -run interprets all function arguments as strings,
 >  >         so your
 >  >         >         program
 >  >         >         will get all the values as string. You will often
 >  >         have to
 >  >         >         write a
 >  >         >         special MFA to convert the strings to the actual
 >  >         types of the
 >  >         >         parameters desired.
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         For example:
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         -module(foo).
 >  >         >         -export([start_cmd_line/1, start/3]).
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         start_cmd_line([NameAtom, IntValue, StrValue]) when
 >  >         >         is_atom(NameAtom),
 >  >         >         is_atom(IntValue), is_atom(StrValue) ->
 >  >         >            Name = NameAtom, % Not really necessary because
 >  >         NameAtom is
 >  >         >         already an atom
 >  >         >            Int = list_to_integer(atom_to_list(IntValue)), %
 >  >         Could
 >  >         >         throw an exception
 >  >         >            Str = atom_to_list(StrValue),
 >  >         >            start(Name, Int, Str).
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         start(Name, Int, Str) ->
 >  >         >            io:format("Name: ~p, Int: ~p, Str: ~p~n", [Name,
 >  >         Int,
 >  >         >         Str]),
 >  >         >           % Etc
 >  >         >           ok.
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         If you started the above by
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         erl -s foo Jarrod 12345 "This is a string"
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         you would get an output something like this:
 >  >         >         Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.2 [source]
 >  >         [64-bit] [smp:4]
 >  >         >         [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         Name: 'Jarrod', Int: 12345, Str: "This is a string"
 >  >         >         Eshell V5.6.2  (abort with ^G)
 >  >         >         1>
 >  >         >
 >  >         >         Hope this helps.
 >  >         >
 >  >         > thanks that clears things up greatly.
 >  >         >
 >  >         >
 >  >
 >  >
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 >  >
 >  > --
 >  > --Hynek (Pichi) Vychodil
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