About:
Tmpf is tiny script (written in Ruby) to write standard output to a temporary file, run an application with the name of that file as an argument, then delete the temporary file when done. This is useful when you want to pipe output to a program that only accepts files, not standard input. Example: cat myfile.ps | tmpf gv (equivalent to: gv myfile.ps). Despite the incredible simplicity of this script, there is nothing quite like it provided among the standard Unix tools.

Author:
hajhouse [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://hajhouse.org/linux/
Tar/GZ:
http://hajhouse.org/linux/tmpf.rb.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users
[License]		Public Domain
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		Ruby
[Topic]		System :: Systems Administration, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0	04-May-2007	Public Domain

 Comments

[»] as much as I like Ruby...
by Michael Shigorin - May 5th 2007 00:31:41

incredibly simple scripts are better in shell. :)

e.g. while read line; do echo $line; done instead of input.readlines.each do ... end; there's also mktemp(1).

To avoid having an (unneeded) shell hanging around folks tend to use exec cmd instead of final cmd (implying a return followed by normal exit).

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Michael Shigorin mike SOMEWHERE AT altlinux PLUS DOT org

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