From: Shashank Date <shanko_date@...>
Date: 2005-06-24T06:31:29+09:00
Subject: Re: reading binary from STDIN in windows

Try this:

ruby -e 'STDIN.binmode;i=STDIN.read;
open("test.pdf","wb").write(i)' < some.pdf

Notice how binmode sets the binary mode.
-- shanko

--- Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> wrote:

> Windows again -( 
> How can I read a binary file from STDIN? 
> 
> For example, in linux I can copy some.pdf to
> test.pdf:
> 
> ruby -e 'i=STDIN.read;
> open("test.pdf","w").write(i)' <some.pdf
> 
> in windows I can (and must) use "wb" instead of "w",
> but how do I specify 
> STDIN to be binary?
> 
> (I need this for a filter working on pdf-files)
> 
> -- 
> Wybo
> 
> 



		
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