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diff --git a/readme.rst b/readme.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9e788b --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Simple Text Queue +================= + +Why `tea` ??? + +- Because I love tea. + +History +======= + +Normally, if you have a worker writing to standard output every file +processed, you could write something like this:: + + find -iname '*.ext' > queue.txt + cat queue.txt | worker > done.txt + # here you can interrupt the service at any time (Ctrl-C/SIGTERM) + comm -23 queue.txt done.txt > remaining_queue.txt + +But if this is something you want to do again and again, it might be +convenient to write a little wrapper to do it for us. This is how teaqueue is +born. |