Hi Greg,
If you use your script as a text filter, you should add an hyphen '-' after
the beautysh command to have stdin as input to the command.
like so:
...
python3 ~/Library/Python/3.9/bin/beautysh -
...
HTH,
Jean Jourdain
On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 4:01:20 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
> I haven't used beautysh but it looks like it's expecting to be passed the
> name/path of a file to operate on, and rewrites the file in place?
>
> A text filter, on the other hand, is passed the contents of the file you
> run it against, in the standard input (sys.stdin in Python).
>
> So you may need to adapt the module interface mentioned in the docs ("You
> can also call beautysh as a module") in order to use it as a text filter.
>
> --Kevin
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 9:24 AM Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of Bash-language text filters that work great. I just
>> tried to create a new one, which instead of working as expected generates
>> an error message.
>>
>> Here's the code:
>>
>> ```
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> ## requires macOS CommandLineTools
>> ## requires pip3 install beautysh
>>
>> python3 ~/Library/Python/3.9/bin/beautysh
>> ```
>> When I run beautysh from the command line, it seems to work fine, just
>> like my text filter that employs css-beautity, js-beautify, and json.tool
>> and uses similar coding.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>>
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