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pipes-cliff: Streaming to and from subprocesses using Pipes

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pipes-cliff helps you spawn subprocesses and send data to and from them with the Pipes library. Subprocesses are opened using the process library, and you stream data in and out using the various Pipes abstractions.

Though this library uses the Pipes library, I have not coordinated with the author of the Pipes library in any way. Any bugs or design flaws are mine and should be reported to

http://www.github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff/issues

For more information, see the README.md file, which is located in the source tarball and at

https://github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff

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Versions [RSS] 0.2.0.0, 0.4.0.0, 0.6.0.0, 0.8.0.0, 0.8.0.2, 0.10.0.0, 0.10.0.2, 0.10.0.4, 0.12.0.0
Dependencies async (>=2.0), base (>=4.7.0.0 && <5), bytestring (>=0.10.4), pipes (>=4.1), pipes-safe (>=2.2), process (>=1.2.0.0), stm (>=2.4.4) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Copyright 2015 Omari Norman
Author Omari Norman
Maintainer omari@smileystation.com
Category Pipes, Concurrency
Home page http://www.github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff
Bug tracker http://www.github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff.git
Uploaded by OmariNorman at 2015-07-15T00:18:53Z
Distributions NixOS:0.12.0.0
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables standardOutputAndError, alphaNumbersByteString, limitedAlphaNumbers, alphaNumbers, numsToLess
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Readme for pipes-cliff-0.10.0.4

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pipes-cliff

pipes-cliff helps you spawn subprocesses and send data to and from them with the Pipes library. Subprocesses are opened using the process library, and the processes and handles are properly cleaned up even if there are exceptions.

Though this library uses the Pipes library, I have not coordinated with the author of the Pipes library in any way. Any bugs or design flaws are mine and should be reported to

http://www.github.com/massysett/pipes-cliff/issues

Though I hope pipes-cliff works on Windows systems, I have only tested it on Unix-like systems. Any reports on how this library works on Windows are appreciated.

Building pipes-cliff

If you get the files from Hackage, just build them in the usual way using cabal-install.

To build the files from Github, you will need to generate the Cabal file. The Cabal file is generated using the Cartel package, so first run

cabal install cartel

and then, from the main directory (the one with the generate script), run

sh generate

(at least, this is how you would do it on a Unix-like system.)

If you are having trouble getting pipes-cliff to build, examine the build history here:

Build Status

Previous builds will show you the dependencies that were used in the past to build the library.

Why the name?

It's named after Cliff Clavin, the mailman on the TV show Cheers. pipes-cliff uses mailboxes to send information to and from subprocesses.

The obvious name, pipes-process, has already been taken. At the time of this writing, I saw at least two libraries with this name, though neither was posted to Hackage.

Similar libraries

Take a look at these other libraries; they might meet your needs.

Dealing specifically with subprocesses and streaming

  • process-streaming

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/process-streaming

  • pipes-shell

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-shell

  • Data.Conduit.Process

https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/snoyberg/library-documentation/data-conduit-process

Larger scripting frameworks

  • HSH

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/HSH

  • Turtle

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle

  • Shelly

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly

Also, look at this discussion on the Pipes mailing list:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/haskell-pipes/JFfyquj5HAg/Lxz7p50JOh4J