Questions tagged [coprocesses]
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How does bash know about its parent's coprocess in this situation, and why does a shebang line change it?
outer.sh:
ls -l /proc/$$/exe
coproc cat
./inner.sh
kill $!
inner.sh:
ls -l /proc/$$/exe
set | grep COPROC || echo No match found
coproc cat
kill $!
When I run ./outer.sh, this gets printed:
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Zsh: bind a key to run another command while a zsh script is in foreground
Zsh keybindings seem to work only when the shell is waiting for a command after the prompt. When a zsh script is launched, it cares about reading inputs only when a command like read is encountered, ...
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Return value vs return status of a coprocess
I don't understand this sentence about Coprocesses in the bash man page:
Since the coprocess is created as an asynchronous command, the coproc command always returns success. The return status of a ...
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zsh, zpty: How to read the output of a process after it has exited?
Start some command with zpty:
zpty -d x ; zpty x 'echo hi' ; sleep 1
How do I read its output now that it has exited?
zpty -r x
Returns 2, and this behavior seems expected per the manpage.
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coproc and named pipe behaviour under command substitution
I have a requirement to make a function in a zsh shell script, that is called by command substitution, communicate state with subsequent calls to the same command substitution.
Something like C's ...
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Using coprocess to write a name referenced variable in BASH
I currently try to start background process with coproc and update a name reference variable.
My not working code:
function updateVariable(){
local -n myVar="${1}"
#i=0;
while :
do
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Usage of cvlc with coproc
I'm trying to feed to file descriptor .mp3 files the with the dummy interface of vlc, i.e., cvlc, in order to add to a playlist on the fly or override the entire file descriptor with new data (new ....
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Coproc in bash script
I'm trying to do a simple shell script that will make my raspberry's bluetooth discoverable but i'm facing some issues. My raspberry is running Raspbian.
Running this through command line works ...
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Is it possible to have multiple concurrent coprocesses?
The intent of the test script1 below is to start an "outer" coprocess (running seq 3), read from this coprocess in a while-loop, and for each line read, print a line identifying the current iteration ...
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Run command in background with foreground terminal access
I am trying to create a function that can run an arbitrary command, interact with the child process (specifics omitted), and then wait for it to exit. If successful, typing run <command> will ...
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How does bash coprocess achieve its pipelining?
Note this passage from man bash ( emphasis mine ):
Coprocesses
A coprocess is a shell command preceded by the coproc reserved word. A
coprocess is executed asynchronously in a subshell, as ...
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Is coproc <command> the same as <command> &? [duplicate]
I have read that $coproc < command > is different from $< command > & in that coproc will execute command in a sub-shell process.
But when I tested it, it worked just like $< ...
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inter process comunication in bash read commands in multiple background functions
I'm trying to get the following code to read from a main input then read that in one function then be able to send that into the input of another function but i am having trouble getting it to work ...
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Why does this gawk coprocess hang?
While having a go at Convert date in bash shell, I tried GNU awk's coprocess feature:
gawk -F, -v cmd='date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" -f-' '{print $5 |& cmd; cmd |& getline d; $5 = d}1' foo
This ...
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Joined pipelines
Considering a routine such as this one:
alpha() { echo a b c |tr ' ' '\n'; }
which outputs a stream, I would like to take the output stream, transform it, and paste it with the original output ...
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How do you use the command coproc in various shells?
Can someone provide a couple of examples on how to use coproc?
slm♦
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