HSH-1.2.4: Library to mix shell scripting with Haskell programsContentsIndex
HSH.Command
Portabilityportable
Stabilityprovisional
MaintainerJohn Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Description
Copyright (c) 2006-2007 John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org
Synopsis
class Show a => ShellCommand a where
fdInvoke :: a -> Fd -> Fd -> [Fd] -> IO () -> IO [InvokeResult]
data PipeCommand a b = PipeCommand a b
(-|-) :: (ShellCommand a, ShellCommand b) => a -> b -> PipeCommand a b
class RunResult a where
run :: ShellCommand b => b -> a
run :: (RunResult a, ShellCommand b) => b -> a
runIO :: ShellCommand a => a -> IO ()
runSL :: ShellCommand a => a -> IO String
type InvokeResult = (String, IO ProcessStatus)
tryEC :: IO a -> IO (Either ProcessStatus a)
catchEC :: IO a -> (ProcessStatus -> IO a) -> IO a
Documentation
class Show a => ShellCommand a where

A shell command is something we can invoke, pipe to, pipe from, or pipe in both directions. All commands that can be run as shell commands must define these methods.

Minimum implementation is fdInvoke.

Methods
fdInvoke
:: aThe command
-> Fdfd to pass to it as stdin
-> Fdfd to pass to it as stdout
-> [Fd]Fds to close in the child. Will not harm Fds this child needs for stdin and stdout.
-> IO ()Action to run post-fork in child (or in main process if it doesn't fork)
-> IO [InvokeResult]Returns an action that, when evaluated, waits for the process to finish and returns an exit code.
Invoke a command.
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data PipeCommand a b
Constructors
PipeCommand a b
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(-|-) :: (ShellCommand a, ShellCommand b) => a -> b -> PipeCommand a b
Pipe the output of the first command into the input of the second.
class RunResult a where

Different ways to get data from run.

  • IO () runs, throws an exception on error, and sends stdout to stdout
  • IO String runs, throws an exception on error, reads stdout into a buffer, and returns it as a string.
  • IO [String] is same as IO String, but returns the results as lines
  • IO ProcessStatus runs and returns a ProcessStatus with the exit information. stdout is sent to stdout. Exceptions are not thrown.
  • IO (String, ProcessStatus) is like IO ProcessStatus, but also includes a description of the last command in the pipe to have an error (or the last command, if there was no error)
  • IO Int returns the exit code from a program directly. If a signal caused the command to be reaped, returns 128 + SIGNUM.
  • IO Bool returns True if the program exited normally (exit code 0, not stopped by a signal) and False otherwise.
Methods
run :: ShellCommand b => b -> a
Runs a command (or pipe of commands), with results presented in any number of different ways.
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run :: (RunResult a, ShellCommand b) => b -> a
Runs a command (or pipe of commands), with results presented in any number of different ways.
runIO :: ShellCommand a => a -> IO ()

A convenience function. Refers only to the version of run that returns IO (). This prevents you from having to cast to it all the time when you do not care about the result of run.

The implementation is simply:

runIO :: (ShellCommand a) => a -> IO ()
runIO = run
runSL :: ShellCommand a => a -> IO String

Another convenience function. This returns the first line of the output, with any trailing newlines or whitespace stripped off. No leading whitespace is stripped. This function will raise an exception if there is not at least one line of output. Mnemonic: runSL means "run single line".

This command exists separately from run because there is already a run instance that returns a String, though that instance returns the entirety of the output in that String.

type InvokeResult = (String, IO ProcessStatus)
Result type for shell commands
tryEC :: IO a -> IO (Either ProcessStatus a)
Handle an exception derived from a program exiting abnormally
catchEC :: IO a -> (ProcessStatus -> IO a) -> IO a
Catch an exception derived from a program exiting abnormally
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