From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T09:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out

Caio Chassot wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to use Kernel#system or one of its friends to manipulate some
> data I have in a ruby string. Ideally, I'd want the executed command
> to read the string from stdin, as if ruby had piped the data to it.
> The data may be reasonably large. Any tips?

Could you be a bit more clear? Do you want to write a program that will
cooperate with a stream? As in:

data_source | ruby-program | data_dest

Yes?

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