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- Subject: Re: Process pipelines in Lua
- From: Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:49:05 -0400
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> [..snip..]
> The reason for mentioning all this on the list is that I think it's
> pretty cool (being able to write process pipelines simply in Lua), but
> I have no idea if it's of interest to anyone else, and, if so, whether
> the API and, secondarily, code, seem sensible.
Rueben,
this new feature is VERY useful. IMHO, easy pipelining has been the
only feature that is keeping shell programming around. With
'posix.pipeline' one can safely retire shell scripts in favor of Lua
scripts.
--Leo--
