From: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@...>
Date: 2001-07-30T11:56:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18777] Re: Autoflush backquotes??

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:30:06AM +0900, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> > def make( action )
> > print `cd #{ @ports_dir }/#{ @category }/#{ @portname };
> > make #{ action } #{ autoclean? ? "clean" : "" }`
> > end
> > 
> > What happens is I install a port it sits for a very long time and then
> > prints huge gobs of info all at once. Everything works right, I just want
> > it flushed right away.
> 
> Perhaps this isn't as neat as you'd like, but you can do something like ...
> 
>    system("...").each do |line|
>        # Do something with the each line
>    end
> 
> I'm pretty sure your code would get executed in parallel, rather than 
> waiting for the shell to complete.
> 
> You can also do
> 
>    `...`.each do |line|
>    end
> 
> of course.
The first one works, the second one won't. You're right it's a bit ugly but it
works, thanks a bunch :)

Sincerly,
Chris Moline