`stdin` support

[PgBiel]

Hello,
Thanks for the great library! I'm new to Gleam, and this seems very useful to program abstractions around shell commands and such.

I'd like to ask, are there any plans for tools to work with stdin? In particular:

1. Being able to provide a certain string (or bytes) as the full standard input to a program;
2. Being able to redirect all stdin received by the Gleam program to the input of the program being run (something akin to LetBeStdin);
3. Being able to pipe a program's stdout to another program's stdin in an efficient manner (could be platform-restricted if needed). This could require a deeper rework (to e.g. use some sort of Process type), but I still think that could be very handy when working with e.g. lots of data in the shell.

Thanks in advance!

[tynanbe]

Thanks, @PgBiel, those are some great ideas.

For my thoughts about the future of this library, check #5 (comment)

As for stdin, shellout should already be as transparent as possible about it, meaning it should be possible to pipe stdin to a command already in many cases. In other words, LetBeStdin shouldn't be necessary, but Erlang itself has some limitations with stdin, as I recall. Potentially in the future, I'll provide a NIF (possibly with a number of precompiled binaries available) I've been toying with that has solved my previous frustrations with Erlang.

I'll definitely consider your other suggestions when I start working on shellout v2.0.

For the time being, I think your first and third ideas might be currently doable as, e.g.

shellout.command(run: "sh", with: ["-euc", "
  echo '" <> my_string <> "' \\
    | cat
"], in: ".", opt: [LetBeStderr, LetBeStdout])

[janwirth]

I could use this to pass generated gleam code through gleam format. Maybe that's not in scope.

[ToddG]

I'd like to pass in secrets to be encrypted by openssl via shellout.. See https://hexdocs.pm/glm_encrypted_file/.

What is the most secure way to do this? My first thought was to write the secrets to a temporary file, encrypt it, and then delete the temporary file. However, openssl also supports encrypting inputs via stdin (that's actually the default). However, I'm not sure how to do this with shellout, and even if I can, is it secure? Meaning, would other users be able to see these values in something like ps ?