From 0a1ba3e50a5dcbded9e90329a949196de604acf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Nyemba <nyemba@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:45:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bug fixes

---
 meta/__init__.py      |  2 +-
 smart/cmd/__init__.py | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/__init__.py b/meta/__init__.py
index 3a8009a..25ed952 100644
--- a/meta/__init__.py
+++ b/meta/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import os
 __app_name__= "smart-logger"
-__version__ = "1.8"
+__version__ = "1.10"
 __author__ = "Steve L. Nyemba, info@the-phi.com"
 __home__ = os.sep.join([os.environ['HOME'],'.smart-logger'])
 __database__='smart_logs'
diff --git a/smart/cmd/__init__.py b/smart/cmd/__init__.py
index 14fa8fd..944abb4 100644
--- a/smart/cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/smart/cmd/__init__.py
@@ -57,12 +57,18 @@ def read(**args) :
     try:
         _parser = args['parser'] if 'parser' in args else None
         stream = None
+        cmd = None
         if _parser and hasattr(_parser,'cmd'):
             cmd = getattr(_parser,'cmd')
+        elif 'cmd' in args :
+            cmd = args['cmd']
+        if cmd :
             handler = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)			
             stream = str(handler.communicate()[0]).replace("b'",'')
-            return _parser (stream)
-        return stream
+            
+        return _parser (stream) if _parser else stream
+
+        # return stream
         #
         # At this point we need to load the parser or return the output as is
         # if 'parser' in args :