reading shell command input

[nesta219]

Hello there.

Been having issues in getting gulp-shell to read keyboard input.

example:

#!/bin/sh
echo "type something: ";
read VARIABLE_NAME
echo $VARIABLE_NAME

It successfully prints "type something", but then when you start typing, it doesn't read any input. Same goes for bash scripts. Is this expected behavior? Or perhaps a limitation of node?

[sun-zheng-an]

Yes, it's expected, because gulp is for doing automatic tasks.

Could you tell me why you need to input manually? I will implement this feature for you if it's reasonable.

[nesta219]

I am working on a web project (using gulp as our task runner), and we use a bash script to create a new module within the project. Part of this includes running npm init to create a new package with independent dependencies within the new module, and unfortunately, you can only use npm init interactively, instead of being able to supply all of the args to it via flags. So, it would be good to be able to type through gulp-shell.

Plus, there are plenty of other potential uses for being able to access standard in!

[sun-zheng-an]

Have you tried to input by redirection instead of typing by hands?

[sun-zheng-an]

Thanks for your advice, I will try to implement this feature some days later.

[nesta219]

Yes but I'm still having difficulty. I think it's an issue with std in in
general

Have you tried to input by redirection instead of typing by hands?

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[nesta219]

Thank you!
On Jun 4, 2014 10:15 PM, "sun-zheng-an" notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for your advice, I will try to implement this feature some days
later.

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[sun-zheng-an]

gulp-shell can read from stdin now.

However, this feature is just for making less surprises to the user, please use it AS LESS AS POSSIBLE.

[nesta219]

thank you!