Re: Read user input from terminal when a pipe is used

[Alexander Schulz <aiqpost@...>]

This does not work for me because io.stdin is a file descriptor to the stdout of tail.
Or did I something wrong.

Am 06.12.2013 um 17:00 schrieb Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com>:

> On 6 December 2013 09:09, Alexander Schulz <aiqpost@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> i want to create a script with lua that reads from a pipe and allows to read input from the user terminal.
>> 
>> Example: history -n | tail -n 10 | my_script
>> 
>> In this case is io.stdin a file descriptor to the pipe.
>> How can i get now in lua a file descriptor on the current terminal?
> 
> io.stdin is what you want; you can use the :lines() iterator:
> 
> for line in io.stdin:lines() do
>    print(line)
> end
>