import "github.com/natefinch/sh"

Package sh is intended to make working with shell commands more shell-like. This package is basically just syntactic sugar wrapped around labix.org/v2/pipe, which in turn just wraps os/exec, but it can make your code a lot easier to read when you have a simple shell-like line rather than a huge mess of pipes and commands and conversions etc.

#####Example:

// create functions that runs the echo, grep, and wc shell commands
echo := sh.Cmd("echo")
grep := sh.Cmd("grep")
wc := sh.Cmd("wc")
	
// run echo, pipe the output through grep and then through wc
// effectively the same as
// $ echo Hi there! | grep -o Hi | wc -w
fmt.Print(sh.Pipe(echo("Hi there!"), grep("-o", "Hi"), wc("-w")))

#####Output:

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func Cmd(name string, args0 ...string) func(args ...string) Executable

Cmd returns a function that will return an Executable for the given command with the given args. This is a convenience for defining functions for commonly reused Executables, such as grep, ls, mkdir, etc.

The args that are passed to Cmd are passed to the Executable when the returned function is run, allowing you to pre-set some common arguments.

echo := sh.Cmd("echo")

fmt.Print(echo("Hi there!"))

Hi there!

func Runner(name string, args0 ...string) func(args ...string) error

Runner returns a function that will run the given shell command with specified arguments. This is a convenience for creating one-off commands that aren't going to be put into Pipe, but instead just run standalone.

The args that are passed to Runner are passed to the shell command when the returned function is run, allowing you to pre-set some common arguments.

echo := sh.Runner("echo")
	
// functions created with runner call the underlying shell command
// immediately and return its standard output.
out, err := echo("Hi there!")
fmt.Println(out)
fmt.Println(err)

Hi there!
<nil>

type Executable struct {
    pipe.Pipe
}

Executable is a runnable construct. You can run it by calling Run(), or by calling String() (which is automatically done when passing it into a fmt.Print style function). It can be passed into Pipe to form a chain of Executables that are executed in series.

func Dump(filename string) Executable

Dump returns an excutable that will read the given file and dump its contents as the Executable's stdout.

grep := sh.Cmd("grep")

name := "ExampleDumpTest"
defer writeTempFile(name, SWCrawl)()

// Equivalent of shell command
// $ cat ExampleDumpTest | grep far
fmt.Print(sh.Pipe(sh.Dump(name), grep("far")))

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func Pipe(cmds ...Executable) Executable

Pipe connects the output of one Executable to the input of the next Executable in the list. The result is an Executable that, when run, returns the output of the last Executable run, and any error it might have had.

If any of the Executables fails, no further Executables are run, and the failing Executable's stderr and error are returned.

echo := sh.Cmd("echo")
	
// note, you can "bake in" arguments when you create these functions.
upper := sh.Cmd("tr", "[:lower:]", "[:upper:]")
grep := sh.Cmd("grep")

// Equivalent of shell command:
// $ echo Hi there! | grep -o Hi | wc -w
fmt.Print(sh.Pipe(echo(SWCrawl), grep("far"), upper()))

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func PipeWith(stdin string, cmds ...Executable) Executable

PipeWith functions like Pipe, but runs the first command with stdin as the input.

upper := sh.Cmd("tr", "[:lower:]", "[:upper:]")
grep := sh.Cmd("grep")
	
fmt.Print(sh.PipeWith(SWCrawl, grep("far"), upper()))

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func Read(r io.Reader) Executable

Read returns an executable that will read from the given reader and use it as the Executable's stdout.

grep := sh.Cmd("grep")
	
name := "ExampleReadTest"
f, cleanup := openTempFile(name, SWCrawl)
defer cleanup()

fmt.Print(sh.Pipe(sh.Read(f), grep("far")))

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func (c Executable) Run() (string, error)

Run executes the command and returns stdout and a nil error on success, or stderr and a non-nil error on failure.

func (c Executable) RunWith(stdin string) (string, error)

RunWith executes the command with the given string as standard input, and returns stdout and a nil error on success, or stderr and a non-nil error on failure.

func (c Executable) String() string

String runs the Executable and returns the standard output if the command succeeds, or stderr if the command fails. If stderr is empty on failure, the Error() value of the error is returned. This is most useful for passing an executable into a fmt.Print style function.

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