"Pipeing" stuff to a child process

[Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)]

So, all unix users know this:

cat myfile | ./someProg

someProg assumes its data to come to STDIN and wouldn’t take other arguments. But, how do we do that in NodeJS? Imagine we have the contents of myfile and just want to spawn a child process of someProg…but then? How do I feed it the stuff it expects?

Kind regards, Ingwie

[Alan Hoffmeister]

Try this http://stackoverflow.com/a/15485424/947885

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2014-10-31 2:13 GMT-02:00 Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)
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[Sam Roberts]

c = child_process.spawn(... {
stdio: ['pipe'], // fd 0 is child's stdin
...})

c.stdin.write('hey, you');