Name

Text::Markup::Cmd - Tools for external commands

Synopsis

use Text::Markup::Cmd;
my $fh = open_pipe(qw(perl -V));

Description

Text::Markup::Cmd provides tools for Text::Markup parsers that depend on external commands, such as Text::Markup::Rest and Text::Markup::AsciiDoctor. Will mainly be of interest to those adding a new parser with such a dependency.

Interface

Exported Functions

WIN32

my $exe = 'nerble' . (WIN32 ? '.exe' : '');

Constant indicating whether the current runtime environment (OS) is Windows.

find_cmd

my $cmd = find_cmd(
  ['nerble' . (WIN32 ? '.exe' : ''), 'nerble.rb'],
  '--version',
);

Searches the path for one or more named commands. Returns the first command to be found in the path and which executes with the specified command line options without error. The caller must specify OS-appropriate spellings of the commands.

exec_or_die

exec_or_die(
    qq{Missing required Python "docutils" module},
    $PYTHON, '-c', 'import docutils',
);

Executes a command and its arguments. Dies with the error argument if the command fails.

open_pipe

my $fh = open_pipe(qw(nerble --as-html input.nerb));

Executes a command and its arguments and returns a file handle opened to its STDOUT. Dies if the command fails.

Author

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2012-2024 David E. Wheeler. Some Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.