cmdPipe.md

Textrude as a pipeline processor

Textrude.exe provides a useful pipe command which minimises the amount of typing required when processing text input from stdin. It takes a single argument which is a template name. The input is treated as a lines model.

For example, if you create a script lc.sbn that counts the number of blank lines in the model:

{{
  cnt = model 
  |> array.each @string.trim 
  |> array.filter @{($0 | string.size) ==0 }@  
  |> array.size  
  "Blank lines: "+cnt
}}

Then invoke it from a powershell session like this:

get-content *.cs | textrude.exe pipe lc.sbn