Livecode server from shell

[Neville Smythe]

I have been trying to use livecode server as a shell  from the command line using the lcsh script of David Williams. If I use the command

lcsh -e “12345”

 it seems to execute but no output is displayed, it just shows the shell prompt. In interactive mode it displays the result of a zsh command such as ls -al; but merely echoes the last few characters of the input if I try a livecode command.

If there is a syntax error in the lcsh  input  parameter in execute mode, the server displays the error correctly. The livecode server itself is working normally, it executes a “hello world" script correctly and displays its output. It also works in cgi mode.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? 

Has David’s work from 2008 been advanced, it appeared to be the start of a really useful project if he ever got pipes to work, being able to use livecode text parsing capabilities directly in shell scripting would be great …

 2008 !! good heavens that long ago!!! I suppose I should be surprised it almost works without always throwing errors … presumably livecode server has changed since then. Maybe a header change needed to get the output sent to stdout?? 
 
Neville Smythe