[racket] Embedding multiline shell scipts

From: Manfred Lotz (manfred.lotz at arcor.de)
Date: Sun Feb 6 15:50:17 EST 2011

On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:37:12 +0100
Thomas Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:

> 2011/2/6 Jukka Tuominen
> <jukka.tuominen at finndesign.fi>:
> > [...]
> > I slightly modified the Manfred's code to capture the output
> > [...]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the code seems somewhat more complicated than necessary to me and it
> lacks some cleanup and error handling. I would suggest to use the
> available utilities from racket/port to simplify the I/O code and the
> control procedure returned from process to at least wait for the
> external process to finish.
> 
> A module like this should do the trick:
> 
>   #lang racket/base
>   (require
>    racket/match
>    racket/port
>    racket/system)
> 
>   (define (shell command)
>     (match-let* ([(list stdout stdin pid stderr control) (process
> command)] [lines (port->lines (merge-input stdout stderr))])
>       (close-output-port stdin)
>       (close-input-port stdout)
>       (close-input-port stderr)
>       (control 'wait)
>       (case (control 'status)
>         [(done-ok)
>          lines]
>         [(done-error)
>          (error
>           'shell "~e failed with exit code ~a"
>           command (control 'exit-code))])))
> 
>   (provide
>    (all-defined-out))
> 
> Ciao,
> Thomas
> 
> 

Thomas,
Thanks for improving my code. I'm still a racket beginner.



-- 
Manfred




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