Re: Re: reading output from another script

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This assumes the stream would be line oriented. Of course that should be true for most circumstances (he even mentions tail -f). But if it is not things get a bit more tricky and he would need to read character by character by some low level system call.

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Re: reading output from another script by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 23, 2003 at 14:53 UTC
Well, yeah, and things could even be more tricky if the read in characters are in some strange encoding, and an obscure language. ;-) I read the article from the OP as if (s)he had problems with the fact that the source (s)he's reading from continues to produce data - not that (s)he needed help with non line oriented input. But even if you want to read byte by byte, just do a `S/ = \1` before reading. Abigail	[reply]

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Re: reading output from another script
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 23, 2003 at 14:53 UTC

I read the article from the OP as if (s)he had problems with the fact that the source (s)he's reading from continues to produce data - not that (s)he needed help with non line oriented input. But even if you want to read byte by byte, just do a S/ = \1 before reading.

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