From: kjana@... (YANAGAWA Kazuhisa)
Date: 2001-03-09T21:27:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12323] Re: How to pipe to an application?

In message <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103081746570.71652-100000@www.stelesys.com>
jim@freeze.org writes:

> I want to be able to write(print) to an application. I'v seen something
> like this in perl with
> 
> open("| app")

And you can do so too in ruby :-)  Object#open which is actually
Kernel.open implements this trick.  Parameters for the command can
be written such as `open("| cat foo")'.

Of course other's saying on IO.popen is correct and that may be
preferable if you want not to use function-like method.


-- 
kjana@os.xaxon.ne.jp                                  March 9, 2001
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