[PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

[Andrew Turley]

So first off, you don't need to call them with 'open' from the command
line. You can just run them directly like any other command, like
this:
  echo "a b c 1 2 3;" |
/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pdsend 3939
The command reads the standard input and sends the data to PD.

Assuming you have a PD patch running with a netrecieve object
listening to port 3939, you can send the same message as above with
this Ruby code:

  require 'socket'
  hostname = "localhost"
  port = 3939
  s = TCPSocket.open(hostname, port)
  # don't forget the semicolon!
  s.puts("a b c 1 2 3;")
  s.close()

andy

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I mean both opening them in finder and using 'open pdsend' in the terminal,
> same result. I'm not up to socket programming in Ruby. But knowing that it's
> possible to communicate directly is a good start. Now, how do it do it?
>
>> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:13:12 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?
>> From: aturley at acm.org
>> To: jbturgid at hotmail.com
>> CC: pd-list at iem.at
>>
>> You should be able to run them from the command line. When you say
>> that you are "opening the files", do you mean you're clicking on them
>> in the Finder? As you've said, that will just open up a terminal
>> window.
>>
>> Also, these commands just communicate with strings over a TCP socket.
>> If you're comfortable with socket programming in Ruby then you don't
>> even have to use pdsend and pdreceive.
>>
>> andy
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hey All
>> > I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm
>> > trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal.
>> > The main trouble I'm having now is that I'm mostly using a Mac OS X
>> > machine
>> > which doesn't recognize the 'pdsend' and 'pdreceive' commands (as the
>> > linux
>> > shell does). I've tried opening the files with these names in
>> > /resources/bin
>> > which open a new terminal window and display what looks like the
>> > relevant
>> > -help text. But I can't seem to use these to send messages to and from
>> > pd
>> > from the Mac OS terminal. (in theory I could then automate this with
>> > Ruby).
>> > Any ideas, at all?
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