A shell utility (in python) to allow piping and redirection of stata commands and output.

statpipe

#!/usr/bin/python

"""
For example:

    echo "di 2^2" | statpipe
    . di 2^2

    4

Depends on envoy (run: pip install envoy). 
To install statpipe, just put it on your path somewhere and make it executable.
Free to use under any license you want.

"""


import os
import envoy
import sys

STATA_EXECUTABLE = "/Applications/Stata/Stata.app/Contents/MacOS/Stata"

code = sys.stdin.read()
tmpdo = "/tmp/statpipe.do"
tmplog = "statpipe.log"

with open(tmpdo, 'w') as f:
    f.write( code + "\n")

result = envoy.run('{} -q -b -e do {}'.format(STATA_EXECUTABLE, tmpdo))

with open(tmplog, 'r') as f:
    # delete some crufty extra spaces
    log = "\n".join(f.readlines()[2:-4])

map(os.remove, [tmpdo, tmplog])

sys.stdout.write(log)