From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T01:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: catching a system call output

On 07/11/05, 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
>
>
>

Try

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

(note that the symbols above are backticks, not quotation marks)

or dive into popen.

cheers,

Brian

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