> On Oct 29, 2025, at 06:10, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/29/25 4:04 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >> On 10/29/25 4:00 AM, Bruce Gray wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 29, 2025, at 05:51, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6- >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I use "run" a lot. >>>> >>>> https://docs.raku.org/routine/run >>>> >>>> It looks to me like "proc" is an OOP construction. >>>> >>>> Where do I find its declaration so I can figure out >>>> what all its members are? (The above link does not >>>> define it or I am blind.) >>>> >>>> So far I know: >>>> $proc.exitcode >>>> $proc.err.slurp(:close) >>>> $proc.out.slurp(:close) >>>> >>>> Yours in confusion, >>>> -T >>> >>> In https://docs.raku.org/routine/run , in the sentence "Runs an external >>> command without involving a shell and returns a Proc object.", the word >>> "Proc" is a link to https://docs.raku.org/type/Proc . >>> >>> That link contains the list of methods: >>> new >>> sink >>> spawn >>> shell >>> command >>> Bool >>> pid >>> exitcode >>> signal >>> >>> Let's say "bleary-eyed"; kinder than "blind", and much more temporary :^) >> I see "exitcode", but I do not see .err or .out. >> Time to wash my eyes out? > > Found it where you said: > > method new(Proc:U: > :$in = '-', > :$out = '-', > :$err = '-', > Bool :$bin = False, > Bool :$chomp = True, > Bool :$merge = False, > Str:D :$enc = 'UTF-8', > Str:D :$nl = "\n", > --> Proc:D) > > What is .bin? Binary? Binary what? Is somethings > returing binary? > > What is .chomp? > > What is $enc? Encrypted? How does that work? > > Is .nl New Line? And I presume that is the > returned text? Does it conflict with .bin? > On https://docs.raku.org/type/Proc , using Cmd-F (Edit->Find in Page) in my Firefox browser on MacOS, I see that [$bin, $chomp, $merge, $enc, $nl] are all defined as *named* *parameters* to the constructors (not *methods* callable on the object, so calling `.bin` on the object won't work, and searching for `.bin` will not find them, but `$bin` can be found). The text at the end of the constructors (`new` and `shell`) is: $bin controls whether the streams are handled as binary (i.e. Blob object) or text (i.e. Str objects). If $bin is False, $enc holds the character encoding to encode strings sent to the input stream and decode binary data from the output and error streams. With $chomp set to True, newlines are stripped from the output and err streams when reading with lines or get. $nl controls what your idea of a newline is. If $merge is set to True, the standard output and error stream end up merged in $proc.out. The [`.err`, `.out`] methods that you asked about in your prior email *do* exist on the `Proc` object, but are also named parameters to the constructors, so can be found by searching `$err` and `$out`. For these, an argument could be made that they should have their own additional `Method` entries in the `Proc` page, but I am not awake enough to make said argument yet. -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)
