Re: erl in unix pipe?

Anthony Howe <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:31:29 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general
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On 2022-01-21 09:26, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2022-01-21 at 09:19:09 -0500,
> Anthony Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> How does one pipe Erlang statements into erl and pipe the output?
>>
>> Wishes Erlang (erl) behaved more like unix tools.
> 
> Try writing an escript:
> 
>   https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/escript.html
>   https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-5.7.4/erts-5.7.4/doc/html/escript.html
> 
> rebar3 supports escripts, too.
> 

I've written escripts in the past for command line tools, but in this case I
just want to use one or two lines to query settings without having to write a
full script.

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