After hours of reading (obviously not comprehending) std.process and looking at code samples, I still can't even do something this simple. Open a Windows command line and run miscellaneous commands. Only the first command, dir" is shown in the final output.

auto pipe = pipeShell("dir", Redirect.all);

pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
pipe.stdin.writeln("whomai");
pipe.stdin.flush();
pipe.stdin.close();
		
foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
    writefln("from shell: %s",str);


I tried putting the wait() command was well in various places. to no avail.

On 06/22/2014 05:01 PM, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>
> After hours of reading (obviously not comprehending) std.process and
> looking at code samples, I still can't even do something this simple.
> Open a Windows command line and run miscellaneous commands. Only the
> first command, dir" is shown in the final output.
>
> auto pipe = pipeShell("dir", Redirect.all);
>
> pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
> pipe.stdin.writeln("whomai");

Typo: whoami

> pipe.stdin.flush();
> pipe.stdin.close();
>
> foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
>      writefln("from shell: %s",str);
>
>
> I tried putting the wait() command was well in various places. to no avail.
>
>

As I understand it, the returned 'pipe' is used to communicate with the command passed to pipeShell. Since 'dir' does not understand 'cd', 'whoami', etc. it fails for you.

I tried the following on Linux and it worked. I think you must replace "bash" with "cmd" on Windows:

import std.stdio;
import std.process;

void main()
{
    auto pipe = pipeShell("bash", Redirect.all);

    pipe.stdin.writeln("dir");
    pipe.stdin.writeln("cd");
    pipe.stdin.writeln("whoami");
    pipe.stdin.flush();
    pipe.stdin.close();

    foreach(str; pipe.stdout.byLine)
        writefln("from shell: %s",str);
}

Ali

Ali, of course, is right. The only thing I'd add is for a Windowsy programmer (unless you have cygwin installed) you probably want something like "cmd.exe" instead of bash.