On Thu, Feb 06 2014, Mike McQuaid wrote:
> I'm not familiar with this software. Is it possible to e.g. read from stdin? 

It's possible to specify a configuration file for bip on the command
line (with -f), so presumably one could specify "-f /dev/stdin". I don't
think that would achieve anything useful:
       - if the configuration file is invalid, bip will exit with an
         error,
       - if the configuration file is valid, bip with run as a daemon
         waiting for clients to connect over the network.
Neither of those seem like useful tests.

bipmkpw generates password hashes. That does seem like something that
could usefully be tested (checked, really), but there is the problem of
it opening /dev/tty directly, which cannot be controlled using command
line arguments.