2020-05-04-shutdown-vector-if-all-sources-finish.md

date	2020-07-13
title	Vector gracefully exits when specific sources finish
description	One step closer to Vector replacing awk and sed!
authors	hoverbear
hide_on_release_notes	false
pr_numbers	2533
release	0.10.0
badges	type sources enhancement stdin

We heard from some folks they were using Vector as a data processor in command line scripts!

Good for you, UNIX hackers 👩‍💻!

Now, in 0.10.0, you can use Vector in standard UNIX pipelines much easier!

banana@tree:/$ echo "awk, sed the Vic" | vector --config test.toml --quiet
{"host":"tree","message":"awk, sed the Vic","source_type":"stdin","timestamp":"2020-05-04T20:43:59.522211979Z"}

Future Outlook

We've been exploring options for expanding vector generate to allow users to specify options from the command line. For example:

banana@tree:/$ vector generate stdin//console(encoding=json)

Once this happens, it seems inevitable we'll add something like this eventually:

banana@tree:/$ vector eval stdin//console(encoding=json)

Want to contribute? Discussion here!