[erlang-questions] Running multiple commands like os:cmd/1

[Gleb Peregud]

This would work, but since sometimes sequence of commands can change
depending on results of other commands in the sequence it does not fit
my case.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED> wrote:
> Have you experimented with calling the shell as a single command, passing
> along the string to execute? E.g.
>
> bash -c "<your series of commands>"
>
> Garrett
>
> On Dec 26, 2012 2:37 PM, "Gleb Peregud" <gleber.p@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Happy holidays, everyone!
>>
>> I want to run multiple commands in a single shell from my code through
>> some sort of open_port({spawn, ...}). I have four requirements:
>> 1) I want it to work asynchronously (i.e. I start a command and I get
>> it's results streamed to a process as it happens);
>> 2) I want to know exactly when a command finishes;
>> 3) Binary output should be handled properly;
>> 4) Changes in env variables should be preserved between commands.
>>
>> A naive sequence of os:cmd/1 or open_port({spawn, ...}) doesn't
>> satisfy requirement 4.
>>
>> os:cmd/1 has a nice backend code in there, but it doesn't satisfy
>> requirement 3. It has a bug. Try running length(os:cmd("head -c 1000
>> /dev/urandom")).
>>
>> open_port({spawn, "/bin/sh -s -"}, [line]) with port_command/2 doesn't
>> satisfy requirement 2.
>>
>> Any ideas how to implement it? Is there any library which does it?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gleb
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