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I need to use Artistic Style as a plugin in order not to become mad comparing some source files that were reformatted.
I set up a plugin with astyle.exe and "< $INPUTFILEPATH" as argument.

Used alone, "astyle.exe < foo.c" works perfectly and puts its output on the stdout.
When used inside EDP with the above argument I get an empty file (stdout) and on stderr:

No file to process <
Artistic Style has terminated

I solved the problem using the alternative syntax "--stdin=$INPUTFILEPATH", but why the previous argument didn't work?

I solved the problem using the alternative syntax "--stdin=$INPUTFILEPATH", but why the previous argument didn't work?

Because EDP does not support this syntax, which typically is not an issue since most command line tools dealing with files would accept file path.

So I had no hope trying.
Well, luckily now we have the (relatively) new syntax that works.
And it's available for XP too.
Thank you.