From: Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@...>
Date: 2005-11-07T09:33:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Lazy fun: Make unary minus silence stderr for backticks

On 11/6/05, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/6/05, Sam Stephenson <sstephenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The way I'm silencing stderr is a bit, um, agile.  Can it be made to
> > work in Ruby on Windows without loading an external library (since
> > open3 doesn't work there)?
>
> On Windows, you could use 2>nul: instead of 2> /dev/null or
> win32-open3 (see http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-open3/)

I knew about win32-open3 but not about 2>:nul. Thanks for the tip Sean!

Sam