Ah, it does look like that will work. It's not mentioned in the README but
it is documented in the script:
parser.add_argument(
> "files",
> metavar="FILE",
> nargs="*",
> help="Files to be beautified. This is mandatory. "
> "If - is provided as filename, then beautysh reads "
> "from stdin and writes on stdout.",
> )
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:27 AM jj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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