Many thanks Tzafrir - it works like a charm. Best regards, Ioan
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Long ago, On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:32:26AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:56:18AM +0100, Olivier wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Any better idea than running an dedicated shell script with a > "asterisk -rx > > > pri show span 1" line ? > > > > Here is my pipeast script: > > > > (while read line; do > > echo -n "$line" # trim the ending newline > > sleep 0.001 # generate different write(2)-s > > done) | socat - /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl > > > > You can pipe whatever you want to that. e.g: > > > > while true; do > > echo pri show span 1 > > sleep 30 > > done | pipeast > > > > Note: socat is available as a debian package: > > http://packages.debian.org/socat . > > It has lately come to my attention that this method is broken (and has > been, for quite some time. Sure enough. It does not use any published > inteerface) and that there is actually some demand for using it. > > A version of pipeast that seems to work now is: > > #!/bin/sh > while read line; do > echo "$line" | tr '\n' '\0' > sleep 0.001 > done | nc -U /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl > > > Notes: > 1. nc, or at least openbsd-netcat, can use unix domain sockets (-U). > No need for socat. > > 2. that /var/run is slowly converting to /run , though the > compatibility link /var/run will likely stay for quite some time. > > 3. If this script breaks in the future, you get to keep both pieces. > But this is only guaranteed if it breaks to exactly two pieces. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > icq#16849755 jabber:[email protected] > +972-50-7952406 mailto:[email protected] > http://www.xorcom.com > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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