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- Subject: io.popen read and write, again
- From: Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>
- Date: 2014年2月25日 21:14:10 +0100
Hello,
This ground was covered, for example, by Edgar Toernig, back in 2007:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-10/msg00189.html
Nonetheless I would like to sanity check my current concoction :)
Basically I would like to somewhat emulate the following construct, but in Lua:
[sqlite3 & cat used for illustration purpose only]
% sqlite3 -bail <<< 'select count( * ) as count from sqlite_master;'; echo $? | cat;
> 0
> 0
Of course, failures should be detected as well:
% sqlite3 -bail <<< 'select count( * ) as count from sqlite_mister;'; echo $? | cat;
> Error: near line 1: no such table: sqlite_mister
> 1
Here is the broadly equivalent Lua construct I’m aiming at:
lua - <<\EOF
local aCommand = 'sqlite3 -bail | cat'
local aHandle = assert( io.popen( aCommand, 'w' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( '.head on', '\n' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( 'select count( * ) as count from sqlite_master;', '\n' ) )
-- ... many other sql commands...
print( aHandle:close() )
EOF
> count
> 0
> true exit 0
Looks reasonable enough, but with one gotcha: it never raises any exception when confronted with invalid commands:
lua - <<\EOF
local aCommand = 'sqlite3 -bail | cat'
local aHandle = assert( io.popen( aCommand, 'w' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( '.head on', '\n' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( 'select count( * ) as count from sqlite_mister;', '\n' ) ) -- invalid table name
print( aHandle:close() )
EOF
> Error: near line 2: no such table: sqlite_mister
> true exit 0
What would be a reasonable way to capture the exit code of the initial command (sqlite3) as opposed to the piped one (cat)?
Is using PIPESTATUS reasonable enough?
lua - <<\EOF
local aCommand = 'sqlite3 -bail | cat; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]};'
local aHandle = assert( io.popen( aCommand, 'w' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( '.head on', '\n' ) )
assert( aHandle:write( 'select count( * ) as count from sqlite_mister;', '\n' ) )
print( aHandle:close() )
EOF
> Error: near line 2: no such table: sqlite_mister
> nil exit 1
Seems to have the expected effect.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance.