Unable to pipe between 2 ipfs commands

[dylanPowers]

Specifically I'm unable to run ipfs cat <hash> | ipfs add without getting the error:

Error: Post http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/add?encoding=json&progress=true&stream-channels=true: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5001: connection refused

FYI, the daemon is offline. This is probably somewhat related to my "I don't know what's going on but commands aren't working" issue

[whyrusleeping]

What i beleive is happening here is that the first command takes the repo lock, and the second command, seeing that the lock is taken, assumes that a daemon is online and tries to connect to it.

[jbenet]

the second command, seeing that the lock is taken, assumes that a daemon is online and tries to connect to it.

yeah this is why i separated repo.lock and api in https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/repo/fs-repo#api -- the fsrepo doesnt look like that. and that spec needs to be updated with Tv's pinning stuff.

[Kubuxu]

This bug is back, now running command like that with daemon disabled returns:

Error: resource temporarily unavailable

[Stebalien]

Proposed solution: Always use a daemon (but start an ephemeral daemon on-demand).

Timeline: someday :(