Struct duct::Expression

#[must_use]
pub struct Expression(_);

The central objects in duct, Expressions are created with cmd or cmd!, combined with pipe or then, and finally executed with start, run, or read. They also support several methods to control their execution, like input, env, and unchecked.

Expressions are immutable, and they do a lot of Arc sharing internally, so all of the methods below take &self and return a new Expression cheaply.

Expressions using then and pipe form trees, and the order in which you call different methods can matter, just like it matters where you put redirections in Bash. For example, each of these expressions suppresses output differently:

// Only suppress output from the left side.
let suppress_foo = cmd!("echo", "foo").stdout_null().then(cmd!("echo", "bar"));
assert_eq!(suppress_foo.read().unwrap(), "bar");

// Only suppress output from the right side.
let suppress_bar = cmd!("echo", "foo").then(cmd!("echo", "bar").stdout_null());
assert_eq!(suppress_bar.read().unwrap(), "foo");

// Suppress output from both sides.
let suppress_both = cmd!("echo", "foo").then(cmd!("echo", "bar")).stdout_null();
assert_eq!(suppress_both.read().unwrap(), "");

This version is exactly the same, but with temporary variables to make it easier to see what's going on:

let foo = cmd!("echo", "foo");
let bar = cmd!("echo", "bar");

let foo_null = foo.stdout_null();
let bar_null = bar.stdout_null();

// Note that you can pass expressions by reference, when you're using them
// more than once.
let suppress_foo = foo_null.then(&bar);
assert_eq!(suppress_foo.read().unwrap(), "bar");

let suppress_bar = foo.then(&bar_null);
assert_eq!(suppress_bar.read().unwrap(), "foo");

let suppress_both = foo.then(bar).stdout_null();
assert_eq!(suppress_both.read().unwrap(), "");

Methods

impl Expression

fn run(&self) -> Result<Output>

Execute an expression, wait for it to complete, and return a std::process::Output object containing the results. Nothing is captured by default, but if you build the expression with stdout_capture or stderr_capture then the Output will hold those captured bytes.

Errors

In addition to all the IO errors possible with std::process::Command, run will return an ErrorKind::Other IO error if child returns a non-zero exit status. To suppress this error and return an Output even when the exit status is non-zero, use the unchecked method.

Example

let output = cmd!("echo", "hi").stdout_capture().run().unwrap();
assert_eq!(b"hi\n".to_vec(), output.stdout);

fn read(&self) -> Result<String>

Execute an expression, capture its standard output, and return the captured output as a String. This is a convenience wrapper around run. Like backticks and $() in the shell, read trims trailing newlines.

Errors

In addition to all the errors possible with run, read will return an ErrorKind::InvalidData IO error if the captured bytes aren't valid UTF-8.

Example

let output = cmd!("echo", "hi").stdout_capture().read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("hi", output);

fn start(&self) -> Result<Handle>

Start running an expression, and immediately return a Handle that represents all the child processes. This is analogous to the spawn method in the standard library. The Handle may be shared between multiple threads.

Errors

In addition to all the errors prossible with std::process::Command::spawn, start can return errors from opening pipes and files. However, start will never return an error if a child process has already started. In particular, if the left side of a pipe expression starts successfully, start will always return Ok. Any errors that happen on the right side will be saved and returned later by the wait methods. That makes it safe for callers to short circuit on start errors without the risk of leaking processes.

Example

let handle = cmd!("echo", "hi").stdout_capture().start().unwrap();
let output = handle.wait().unwrap();
assert_eq!(b"hi\n".to_vec(), output.stdout);

fn pipe<T: Into<Expression>>(&self, right: T) -> Expression

Join two expressions into a pipe expression, where the standard output of the left will be hooked up to the standard input of the right, like | in the shell.

Errors

During execution, if one side of the pipe returns a non-zero exit status, that becomes the status of the whole pipe, similar to Bash's pipefail option. If both sides return non-zero, and one of them is unchecked, then the checked side wins. Otherwise the right side wins.

Example

let output = cmd!("echo", "hi").pipe(cmd!("sed", "s/h/p/")).read();
assert_eq!("pi", output.unwrap());

fn then<T: Into<Expression>>(&self, right: T) -> Expression

Join two expressions together into an "A then B" expression, like && in the shell.

Errors

During execution, if the left child returns a non-zero exit status, the right child gets skipped. You can use unchecked on the left child to make sure the right child always runs. The exit status of this expression is the status of the last child that ran. Note that kill will prevent the right side from starting if it hasn't already, even if the left side is unchecked.

Example

// Both echoes share the same stdout, so both go through `sed`.
let output = cmd!("echo", "-n", "bar")
    .then(cmd!("echo", "baz"))
    .pipe(cmd!("sed", "s/b/f/g")).read();
assert_eq!("farfaz", output.unwrap());

fn input<T: Into<Vec<u8>>>(&self, input: T) -> Expression

Use bytes or a string as input for an expression, like <<< in the shell. A worker thread will write the input at runtime.

Example

// Many types implement Into<Vec<u8>>. Here's a string.
let output = cmd!("cat").input("foo").read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("foo", output);

// And here's a byte slice.
let output = cmd!("cat").input(&b"foo"[..]).read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("foo", output);

fn stdin<T: Into<PathBuf>>(&self, path: T) -> Expression

Open a file at the given path and use it as input for an expression, like < in the shell.

Example

// Many types implement Into<PathBuf>, including &str.
let output = cmd!("head", "-c", "3").stdin("/dev/zero").read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("\0\0\0", output);

fn stdin_handle<T: IntoRawFd>(&self, handle: T) -> Expression

Use an already opened file or pipe as input for an expression.

Example

let input_file = std::fs::File::open("/dev/zero").unwrap();
let output = cmd!("head", "-c", "3").stdin_handle(input_file).read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("\0\0\0", output);

fn stdin_null(&self) -> Expression

Use /dev/null (or NUL on Windows) as input for an expression.

Example

let output = cmd!("cat").stdin_null().read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("", output);

fn stdout<T: Into<PathBuf>>(&self, path: T) -> Expression

Open a file at the given path and use it as output for an expression, like > in the shell.

Example

// Many types implement Into<PathBuf>, including &str.
let path = cmd!("mktemp").read().unwrap();
cmd!("echo", "wee").stdout(&path).run().unwrap();
let mut output = String::new();
std::fs::File::open(&path).unwrap().read_to_string(&mut output).unwrap();
assert_eq!("wee\n", output);

fn stdout_handle<T: IntoRawFd>(&self, handle: T) -> Expression

Use an already opened file or pipe as output for an expression.

Example

let path = cmd!("mktemp").read().unwrap();
let file = std::fs::File::create(&path).unwrap();
cmd!("echo", "wee").stdout_handle(file).run().unwrap();
let mut output = String::new();
std::fs::File::open(&path).unwrap().read_to_string(&mut output).unwrap();
assert_eq!("wee\n", output);

fn stdout_null(&self) -> Expression

Use /dev/null (or NUL on Windows) as output for an expression.

Example

// This echo command won't print anything.
cmd!("echo", "foo", "bar", "baz").stdout_null().run().unwrap();

// And you won't get anything even if you try to read its output! The
// null redirect happens farther down in the expression tree than the
// implicit `stdout_capture`, and so it takes precedence.
let output = cmd!("echo", "foo", "bar", "baz").stdout_null().read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("", output);

fn stdout_capture(&self) -> Expression

Capture the standard output of an expression. The captured bytes will be available on the stdout field of the std::process::Output object returned by run or wait. In the simplest cases, read can be more convenient.

Example

// The most direct way to read stdout bytes is `stdout_capture`.
let output1 = cmd!("echo", "foo").stdout_capture().run().unwrap().stdout;
assert_eq!(&b"foo\n"[..], &output1[..]);

// The `read` method is a shorthand for `stdout_capture`, and it also
// does string parsing and newline trimming.
let output2 = cmd!("echo", "foo").read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("foo", output2)

fn stdout_to_stderr(&self) -> Expression

Join the standard output of an expression to its standard error pipe, similar to 1>&2 in the shell.

Example

let output = cmd!("echo", "foo").stdout_to_stderr().stderr_capture().run().unwrap();
assert_eq!(&b"foo\n"[..], &output.stderr[..]);

fn stderr<T: Into<PathBuf>>(&self, path: T) -> Expression

Open a file at the given path and use it as error output for an expression, like 2> in the shell.

Example

// Many types implement Into<PathBuf>, including &str.
let path = cmd!("mktemp").read().unwrap();
cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo wee >&2").stderr(&path).run().unwrap();
let mut error_output = String::new();
std::fs::File::open(&path).unwrap().read_to_string(&mut error_output).unwrap();
assert_eq!("wee\n", error_output);

fn stderr_handle<T: IntoRawFd>(&self, handle: T) -> Expression

Use an already opened file or pipe as error output for an expression.

Example

let path = cmd!("mktemp").read().unwrap();
let file = std::fs::File::create(&path).unwrap();
cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo wee >&2").stderr_handle(file).run().unwrap();
let mut error_output = String::new();
std::fs::File::open(&path).unwrap().read_to_string(&mut error_output).unwrap();
assert_eq!("wee\n", error_output);

fn stderr_null(&self) -> Expression

Use /dev/null (or NUL on Windows) as error output for an expression.

Example

// This echo-to-stderr command won't print anything.
cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo foo bar baz >&2").stderr_null().run().unwrap();

fn stderr_capture(&self) -> Expression

Capture the error output of an expression. The captured bytes will be available on the stderr field of the Output object returned by run or wait.

Example

let output_obj = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo foo >&2").stderr_capture().run().unwrap();
assert_eq!(&b"foo\n"[..], &output_obj.stderr[..]);

fn stderr_to_stdout(&self) -> Expression

Join the standard error of an expression to its standard output pipe, similar to 2>&1 in the shell.

Example

let error_output = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo foo >&2").stderr_to_stdout().read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("foo", error_output);

fn dir<T: Into<PathBuf>>(&self, path: T) -> Expression

Set the working directory where the expression will execute.

Note that in some languages (Rust and Python at least), there are tricky platform differences in the way relative exe paths interact with child working directories. In particular, the exe path will be interpreted relative to the child dir on Unix, but relative to the parent dir on Windows. duct considers the Windows behavior correct, so in order to get that behavior consistently it calls std::fs::canonicalize on relative exe paths when dir is in use. Paths in this sense are any program name containing a path separator, regardless of the type. (Note also that Path and PathBuf program names get a ./ prepended to them automatically by the ToExecutable trait, and so will always contain a separator.)

Errors

Canonicalization can fail on some filesystems, or if the current directory has been removed, and run will return those errors rather than trying any sneaky workarounds.

Example

let output = cmd!("pwd").dir("/").read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("/", output);

fn env<T, U>(&self, name: T, val: U) -> Expression where
    T: Into<OsString>,
    U: Into<OsString>, 

Set a variable in the expression's environment.

Example

let output = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo $FOO").env("FOO", "bar").read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("bar", output);

fn env_remove<T>(&self, name: T) -> Expression where
    T: Into<OsString>, 

Remove a variable from the expression's environment.

Note that all the environment functions try to do whatever the platform does with respect to case sensitivity. That means that env_remove("foo") will unset the uppercase variable FOO on Windows, but not on Unix.

Example

std::env::set_var("TESTING", "true");
let output = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo a${TESTING}b")
    .env_remove("TESTING")
    .read()
    .unwrap();
assert_eq!("ab", output);

fn full_env<T, U, V>(&self, name_vals: T) -> Expression where
    T: IntoIterator<Item = (U, V)>,
    U: Into<OsString>,
    V: Into<OsString>, 

Set the expression's entire environment, from a collection of name-value pairs (like a HashMap). You can use this method to clear specific variables for example, by collecting the parent's environment, removing some names from the collection, and passing the result to full_env. Note that some environment variables are required for normal program execution (like SystemRoot on Windows), so copying the parent's environment is usually preferable to starting with an empty one.

Example

let mut env_map: HashMap<_, _> = std::env::vars().collect();
env_map.insert("FOO".into(), "bar".into());
let output = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo $FOO").full_env(&env_map).read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("bar", output);
// The IntoIterator/Into<OsString> bounds are pretty flexible. Passing
// by value works here too.
let output = cmd!("sh", "-c", "echo $FOO").full_env(env_map).read().unwrap();
assert_eq!("bar", output);

fn unchecked(&self) -> Expression

Prevent a non-zero exit status from short-circuiting a then expression or from causing run and friends to return an error. The unchecked exit code will still be there on the Output returned by run; its value doesn't change.

"Uncheckedness" sticks to an exit code as it bubbles up through complicated expressions, but it doesn't "infect" other exit codes. So for example, if only one sub-expression in a pipe has unchecked, then errors returned by the other side will still be checked. That said, most commonly you'll just call unchecked right before run, and it'll apply to an entire expression. This sub-expression stuff doesn't usually come up unless you have a big pipeline built out of lots of different pieces.

Example

// Normally the `false` command (which does nothing but return a
// non-zero exit status) would short-circuit the `then` expression and
// also make `read` return an error. `unchecked` prevents this.
cmd!("false").unchecked().then(cmd!("echo", "hi")).read().unwrap();

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for Expression

fn clone(&self) -> Expression

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for Expression

fn fmt(&self, __arg_0: &mut Formatter) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl<'a> From<&'a Expression> for Expression

fn from(expr: &Expression) -> Expression

Performs the conversion.