On 10/29/25 7:12 AM, Bruce Gray wrote:
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.
Thank you!
Some nore questions:
Why do I need too add :err, :out on the run line?
