Re: more package transformations: overrides

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello,

Sarthak Shah <shahsarthakw@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> By separate file or stdin your really mean stdin, correct?  As in:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> guix something < args.txt or
>> echo "$args" | guix something
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> One note: since this mechanism could be generally useful, it should be
>> globally available (like 'guix build' options), for any 'guix'
>> invocation.
>>
> Actually, while using this shell script you could also pass a file directly
> i.e all of these will work:
> -----(shell)------
> ./guix-shell-with-args /path/to/some/file-with-args
> ./guix-shell-with-args < /some/other/file
> echo "something from stdin" | ./guix-shell-with-args
> -------------------

Interesting, althoug I think accepting a file would be perhaps going too
far, not sure.  I think targetting an explicit arg and stdin would be
a good starting point.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim