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Re: Buffer or string as file input?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Buffer or string as file input? |
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Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:46:35 -0500 |
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In article <e6be9402-c808-4e60-af58-6d7ee6d7ed47@googlegroups.com>,
Jonathon McKitrick <jmckitrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to call CALL-PROCESS but the stdin argument will be a string I am
> constructing. I would prefer to avoid writing that to a file just to read it
> into the command.
>
> Is there a way to use a buffer or string as a file input, like a stream?
call-process-region uses a region in the current buffer as stdin for the
process.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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