Gavin Andresen - 2011-05-18 13:05:49

Would it be good enough if I volunteered to write a little perl or python or php or bash script that reads the passphrase from a file descriptor and then posts the right JSON-HTTP request?

If the consensus is to teach bitcoind to read arguments from file descriptors, somebody please figure out if there's a standard for how other unix apps do that.  Here's what curl does:
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If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin.