From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T01:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: catching a system call output

On 11/7/05, Tool69 <kibleur.christophe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a Ruby prog with a system call to latex like this one :
> system('latex -interaction=nonstopmode temp.tex')
> It works fine, but I wanted to catch the output inside an array (or
> variable), but not in my terminal.
> How can I do that ? Thanks for your response :
> 6TooL9

You can use backticks to capture stdout:

text = `latex -interaction=nonstopmode temp.tex`

Regards,

Sean