[Asterisk-Users] ast_sock_cmd: pipe commands to asterisk

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:31:18PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/23/05 03:01 Tzafrir Cohen said the following:
> >example usage:
> >
> >  echo -e "set verbose 3\nset debug 5" | ./ast_sock_cmd
> >  
> >  echo -e "restart now" | ./ast_sock_cmd
> >
> >I'd also be happy to know of existing alternatives. It looked strange I
> >could not find such an existing tool to pipe text into a unix-domain
> >socket.
> 
> how different is this from using the following,
> 
> asterisk -rx 'set verbose 3'
> asterisk -rx 'restart now'

Because you have to invoke asterisk twice. You can't pipe standard input
into 'asterisk -r' .

And because you have to invoke asterisk just for writing to a socket. 
(The asterisk daemon will do its own sanity cheks later, no need to do
them in the client).

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