Re: How to run shell command with stream input, to get string output

[tomas]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 10:17:16AM +0200, Jean Louis wrote:

[...]

> That one runs only shell command, without the
> input.
> 
> I am looking to something equivalent to shell
> 
> cat | markdown

[...]

Perhaps call-process-region is for you: it passes the current
region as stdin to the invoked process. Cf [1]. If you need
more control (or perhaps an asynchronous process which you can
feed input spoonwise), perhaps [2] is it. But that takes some
"bricolage" :-)

Cheers

[1] Elisp manual 38.3 Creating a Synchronous Process
[2] Elisp manual 38.7 Sending Input to Processes
-- tomás

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