Faulty documentation for reading Taskfile from stdin

[UlrichEckhardt]

Description

Hi! :)

Check out the documentation for reading the Taskfile from stdin. There is one example that simply does not work:

task -t - <(cat Taskfile.yaml)

I think what you actually mean is one of these:

# input redirection
task -t - < Taskfile.yaml
# process substitution
task -t <(cat Taskfile.yaml)

If you're not familiar with Bash process substitution (I'm unsure if a POSIX shell even supports that), run echo -t <(cat Taskfile.yaml), which will show you what the shell resolves this to. On my system, it gave me task -t /dev/fd/63, with /dev/fd/63 being the a name by which stdout of the cat Taskfile.yaml process can be accessed.

BTW: I think the examples implicitly assume Bash or a POSIX shell, which could be written in a more explicit way. That would be a major overhaul though.

Cheers!

Uli

Version

n/a

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04

Experiments Enabled

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Example Taskfile

[trulede]

@UlrichEckhardt would you like to open a PR for the changes. I suggest to add both your corrections, and retain existing working example (cat ./Taskfile.yml | task -t -).

If you can, please close the issue once the PR is open.