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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package aQute.shell.runtime;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.*;
+
+import org.osgi.service.command.*;
+
+public class Pipe extends Thread {
+	InputStream in;
+	PrintStream out;
+	PipedOutputStream pout;
+	Closure closure;
+	Exception exception;
+	Object result;
+	List<List<CharSequence>> statements;
+
+	public Pipe(Closure closure, List<List<CharSequence>> statements) {
+		super("pipe-" + statements);
+		this.closure = closure;
+		this.statements = statements;
+	}
+
+	public void setIn(InputStream in) {
+		this.in = in;
+	}
+
+	public void setOut(PrintStream out) {
+		this.out = out;
+	}
+
+	public Pipe connect(Pipe next) throws IOException {
+		next.setOut(out);
+		pout = new PipedOutputStream();
+		next.setIn(new PipedInputStream(pout));
+		out = new PrintStream(pout);
+		return next;
+
+	}
+
+	public void run() {
+		closure.session.service.threadIO.setStreams(in, out, System.err);
+		try {
+			for (List<CharSequence> statement : statements) {
+				result = closure.executeStatement(statement);
+				if ( result != null && pout != null )
+					out.println(closure.session.format(result, Converter.INSPECT));
+			}
+		} catch (Exception e) {
+			exception = e;
+		} finally {
+			out.flush();
+			closure.session.service.threadIO.close();
+			try {
+				if ( in instanceof PipedInputStream )
+					in.close();
+				if (pout!=null)
+					pout.close();
+			} catch (IOException e) {
+				e.printStackTrace();
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}