NAME Process::Pipeline - execute processes as pipeline SYNOPSIS In shell: $ zcat access.log.gz | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep -c POST In perl5: use Process::Pipeline; my $pipeline = Process::Pipeline->new ->push(sub { my $p = shift; $p->cmd("zcat", "access.log.gz") }) ->push(sub { my $p = shift; $p->cmd("grep", "-v", "127.0.0.1") }) ->push(sub { my $p = shift; $p->cmd("grep", "-c", "POST" }); my $r = $pipeline->start; if ($r->is_success) { my $fh = $result->fh; # output filehandle of $pipeline say <$fh>; } In perl5 with DSL: use Process::Pipeline::DSL; my $pipeline = proc { "zcat", "access.log.gz" } proc { "grep", "-v", "127.0.0.1" } proc { "grep", "-c", "POST" }; my $r = $pipeline->start; if ($r->is_success) { my $fh = $result->fh; # output filehandle of $pipeline say <$fh>; } DESCRIPTION Process::Pipeline helps you write a pipeline of processes. MOTIVATION It is known that we should avoid shell-invocation in perl. But, because the notation of shell is very convenient, I sometimes find myself invoking shell. Oops. The main reason for invoking shell in perl is that perl does not have as convenient notation as shell has. Process::Pipeline try to give an easy pipeline notation to perl. Why don't you change chomp(my $num = `zcat access.log.gz | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | grep -c POST`); into use Process::Pipeline::DSL; my $p = proc { "zcat", "access.log.gz" } proc { "grep", "-v", "127.0.0.1" } proc { "grep", "-c", "POST" }; my $r = $p->start; if ($r->is_success) { my $fh = $r->fh; chomp(my $num = <$fh>); } METHODS new my $pipeline = Process::Pipeline->new; Constructor. push $pipeline->push(sub { my $p = shift; $p->cmd("zcat", "access.log.gz"); }); $pipeline->push(sub { my $p = shift; $p->set("2>", "/dev/null"); $p->cmd("zcat", "access.log.gz"); }); Push a Process::Pipeline::Process object to the pipeline. start my $result = $pipeline->start; Start the pipeline. It returns a Process::Pipeline::Result object. my $result = $pipeline->start; my $bool = $reuslt->is_success; # all commands exit successfully my $fh = $reuslt->fh; # pipeline's output filehandle DSL There is a DSL for Process::Pipeline. Process::Pipeline::DSL exports proc and set functions, and you can construct pipelines easily. use Process::Pipeline::DSL; my $p = proc { "git", "archive", "--format=tar", "--prefix=repo/", "HEAD" } proc { set ">" => "repo.tar.gz"; "gzip" }; my $r = $p->start; COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2016 Shoichi Kaji This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.