From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-26T04:55:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Can you temporarily turn off STDERR ??

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Ken Bloom wrote:

>
> Tar is being run in a shell, so you could run:
> system("tar xf mytar.tar 2>/dev/null")
>
> You could also use the open3 library (from the standard library)
> documented on p708 of Pickaxe or at
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/open3/rdoc/index.html

it's ruby that prints the message, not the command

   jib:~/shared > ruby -e'  system "true"  '
   -e:1: warning: Insecure world writable dir /dmsp/moby-1-1/ahoward/shared/.,
   mode 040777

fyi.

cheers.


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