From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-03-22T13:54:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13051] Re: How do I properly munge stdout and stderr when using IO.popen?

----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:13036] Re: How do I properly munge stdout and stderr
when using IO.popen?


> I can't force the end user to choose a particular shell.
>
> I am thinking about using the open3 module( I just searched in the
> archives ) but would still like to munge the output would
> something like this work:
>
> write, read, err = open3( "/usr/atria/bin/cleartool"... )
>
> err.reopen( read )
>
> Thanks!
>
> donald

This doesn't work... other people have suggested viable options,
but I'm still considering how to do it without mucking around
inside the double quotes. (Just as a matter of curiosity.)

Let us know what you find.

Thanks,
Hal