Passing console input to a command?

[spemmons]

currently all the stdin options for a command are predefined files, bytes, etc.

would it be possible to connect to the stdin of the command with a loop reading user input and feeding it to the process?

[oconnor663]

Normally reading user input from the terminal is the default behavior if you don't change anything. For example this program:

use duct::cmd;

fn main() {
    println!("gonna start Python");
    cmd!("python").run().unwrap();
    println!("Python exited");
}

Does this (where cargo run and exit() are my keyboard input):

$ cargo run
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.00s
     Running `target/debug/scratch`
gonna start Python
Python 3.12.7 (main, Oct  1 2024, 11:15:50) [GCC 14.2.1 20240910] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit()
Python exited
$

(The same is true of std::process::Command.) Does that help at all, or was that already clear?