From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to capture stdout and stderr to separate variables in Zsh?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:01:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <120306230111.ZM11639@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331054185.27052.19.camel@air.fifi.org>
On Mar 6, 9:16am, Philippe Troin wrote:
}
} On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:09 +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
} > Is it possible to capture stdout and stderr to separate variables in Zsh?
}
} All I can think of is:
}
} coproc cat &
} pid=$!
} stdout="$( ( print "printed on stdout"; print -u 2 "printer on stderr" ) 2>&p )"
} sleep 1
} kill "$pid"
} stderr="$(cat <&p)"
}
} You'll notice the very ugly sleep+kill hack I had to use as I could not
} find how you can close a coprocess's standard input cleanly. Removing
} the sleep+kill makes the cat <&p hang forever.
You need this: http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2011/msg00095.html :-)
} A completely different solution could involve the tcp zsh module which
} can multiplex many streams with tcp_expect. But that's probably too
} involved for this problem.
You might also be able to do something with the zsh/zselect module, but
just use a temp file. That solution works in bash, too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-07 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 8:09 Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-06 17:16 ` Philippe Troin
2012-03-07 7:01 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2012-03-07 9:26 ` Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-08 14:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-30 7:15 ` Nikolai Weibull
2012-03-30 14:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-09-10 6:16 ` Han Pingtian
2012-03-07 19:37 ` Philippe Troin
2012-03-08 4:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-09-01 11:59 ` Han Pingtian
2012-09-09 19:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2012-08-31 0:40 ` Paul Maisano
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