cli: stdin won t work for me

[mh-cbon]

Hi,

When i run this command, the output is empty,

cat README.md | showdown makehtml
Enabling option ghCodeBlocks
Enabling option encodeEmails
...
Reading data from stdin...
Parsing markdown...
Writing data to stdout...


DONE!

Where the README has content, see https://github.com/mh-cbon/emd/blob/master/README.md

Node -v 7.7.1 (also tested another older 7.x, broken too), i had to fallback to another tool, mdown

[tivie]

that is strange... what version of showdown are you using?

I've tested this on: showdown 1.6.4 on node 6.10-win-64x and it's working fine:

[tivie]

Tested on:

• Windows 10
• node 7.7.1
• showdown 1.6.4

And it's still working fine:

[tivie]

you can also try running this command instead:

showdown makehtml -i README.md

and check if it works

[mh-cbon]

indeed : x

$ showdown -v
1.6.4
[mh-cbon@pc15-home ~] $ node -v
v7.7.1

see

showdown makehtml -i README.md | wc -l
Enabling option ghCodeBlocks
Enabling option encodeEmails
...
Reading data from file...
Parsing markdown...
Writing data to stdout...


DONE!
138

and

$ cat README.md | showdown makehtml | wc -l
Enabling option ghCodeBlocks
Enabling option encodeEmails
...
Reading data from stdin...
Parsing markdown...
Writing data to stdout...


DONE!
0

[tivie]

it seems showdown is able to find the README.d file but it is unable to read from it.

Can you try doing this:

echo "# foobar" | showdown makehtml

[mh-cbon]

echo "# foobar" | showdown makehtml
Enabling option ghCodeBlocks
Enabling option encodeEmails
...
Reading data from stdin...
Parsing markdown...
Writing data to stdout...


DONE!

Digging the source, looks likes the problem is here, size is 0.

  function readFromStdIn () {
    try {
      var size = fs.fstatSync(process.stdin.fd).size;
console.log(size);
      return size > 0 ? fs.readSync(process.stdin.fd, size)[0] : '';
    } catch (e) {
      var err = new Error('Could not read from stdin, reason: ' + e.message);
      messenger.errorExit(err);
    }
  }

IMHO, i d refactor makehtml.run to copy the stdin stream to memory, rather than sync reading the fdesc.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/13411244/4466350

[tivie]

I've been testing this and could not reproduce the issue.
And it's really bothering me!