Shell stdin/stdout

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/11/13 10:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 8/11/13 10:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>> Jacque-
>>
>> Sunday, August 11, 2013, 8:07:23 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> The "it" variable is empty, and the new file appears on disk. I want to
>>> do this:
>>
>>>      put <pathToPngquant> && "16" && (the text of img 1) into tCmd
>>>      get shell(tCmd) -- get binary data back
>>
>>> Or, if not the text of img 1, using the binary data of an image on disk
>>> would be okay too.
>>
>> Untested, but how about
>>
>> put <pathToPngquant> && "16" && "<" && (the text of img 1) into tCmd
>> get shell(tCmd)
>>
>
> Thanks Mark, I had high hopes, but:
>
>    /bin/sh: line 1: tCmd: command not found
>
> But if I pass it a real path on disk, the same command works. Only I get
> a file.
>

But wait! There's more! If I do this, it does work:

put <pathToPngquant> && "16" && "<" && <pathToImg> into tCmd

I get binary back. :) Thank you, thank you.

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