From: Ashley Moran <work@...>
Date: 2006-08-31T00:46:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Evading the limit of a pipe's standard input

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:10, Ken Bloom wrote:
> Since you're throwing away the output, instead of using a thread, why try
> one of the following:
> * popen with the mode "w"
> IO.popen("psql -U test test","w")
> * redirect the results from pgsql to /dev/null inside the popen call
> IO.popen("psql -U test test > /dev/null","r+")
>
> --Ken


Thanks Ken the last one was what I was looking for.  I forgot to say 
that 'IO.popen("psql -U test test","w")' was actually one of the first things 
I tried, but it dumps the (several thousand lines of) psql results back into 
the shell, which renders the output of the script useless.

Ashley

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