From: Kalman Noel <invalid@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T19:45:09+09:00
Subject: Re: system(...) redirect output to file ?

Rebhan, Gilbert:
> I need to parse the output from 
> cvs -update command to get the new files before doing a commit.

output = `command here`

Note the use of backticks (`), and note that only the command's stdout is
redirected. For more complicated use there is IO.popen. Note furthermore
that ` is a method, which means that (hopefully) all you need to know can
be found via

	ri '`'
	ri IO.popen

Regards, Kalman