From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-03-14T07:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: script runs ok alone, broken pipe when piped to head?

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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Dave Burns <tburns@hawaii.edu> wrote:

>  Row: 1 Cell: 1> 1173
>  Row: 1 Cell: 2> 961SU
>  Row: 2 Cell: 0> 80118
>  excelparse.rb:19:in `write': Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)
>        from excelparse.rb:19:in `puts'
>        from excelparse.rb:19
>        from excelparse.rb:15:in `each'
>        from excelparse.rb:15
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/parseexcel-0.5.2
> /lib/parseexcel/worksheet.rb:143:in
>  `each'
>        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/parseexcel-0.5.2
> /lib/parseexcel/worksheet.rb:143:in
>  `each'
>        from excelparse.rb:11
>
>  Any hints? The script itself is a minor mod of the example given at
>  the parseexcel site (see below).


It's a very random guess, but is the EPIPE possibly happening because `head'
closed the connection after reading 10 lines? What happens if you run it
like this..?
  ruby -rubygems excelparse.rb stuff.xls 2>&1 | less


Arlen

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