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-rw-r--r--data/pandoc.lua23
-rw-r--r--src/Text/Pandoc/Lua/PandocModule.hs2
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/data/pandoc.lua b/data/pandoc.lua
index e6cfbc90c..fc83103e0 100644
--- a/data/pandoc.lua
+++ b/data/pandoc.lua
@@ -790,6 +790,29 @@ function M.read(markup, format)
end
end
+--- Runs command with arguments, passing it some input, and returns the output.
+-- @treturn string Output of command.
+-- @usage
+-- local ec, output = pandoc.pipe("sed", {"-e","s/a/b/"}, "abc")
+function M.pipe (command, args, input)
+ local ec, output = pandoc._pipe(command, args, input)
+ if ec ~= 0 then
+ err = setmetatable(
+ { command = command, error_code = ec, output = output},
+ { __tostring = function(e)
+ return "Error running " .. e.command
+ .. " (error code " .. e.error_code .. "): "
+ .. e.output
+ end
+ }
+ )
+ -- TODO: drop the wrapping call to `tostring` as soon as hslua supports
+ -- non-string error objects.
+ error(tostring(err))
+ end
+ return output
+end
+
--- Use functions defined in the global namespace to create a pandoc filter.
-- All globally defined functions which have names of pandoc elements are
-- collected into a new table.
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Lua/PandocModule.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Lua/PandocModule.hs
index c689edc4e..f9b072dff 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Lua/PandocModule.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Lua/PandocModule.hs
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ pushPandocModule datadir = do
script <- liftIO (pandocModuleScript datadir)
status <- Lua.loadstring script
unless (status /= Lua.OK) $ Lua.call 0 1
- addFunction "pipe" pipeFn
+ addFunction "_pipe" pipeFn
addFunction "_read" readDoc
addFunction "sha1" sha1HashFn