On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:01:06 -0700
Matthias Kramm <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:30:20PM +0300, Romi Kuntsman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm handling a SWF file in memory in my program, and would like to
> > pass the file to swfdump and read the output.
> > How can this be done without writing it to a temporary file on disk
> > and then passing the filename as parameter, for example using a
> > pipe or similar option?
> 
> Afraid that a temporary file is the only way to do this- 
> in its current implementation, swfdump reads the file twice- once
> to determine the file type, and a second time to actually parse,
> so it can't process a stdin stream for that very reason.
> 
> Matthias

While you may not be able to change the way the command works, you
could always change the way the 'file' is read..

.. in which case, this may help,

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs

Regards,


Chris.

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