From: Vince H&K <vince.hetk@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T07:18:14+09:00
Subject: Re: silly(?) request

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to pipe the output of a command to a
> running instance of irb?
> 
> I said it was silly.
> But it seems like it would be really useful.  Something along the lines of
> #*nix>find ./ -name "*.foo" |toirb
> that would dump the output from find (as an array?  As text?) to an
> already active instance of IRB.

  Try

mkfifo file
find ./ -name "*.foo" > file

irb> File.open("file", "r")

  That should do the trick.

	Vince

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Vincent Fourmond, PhD student (not for long anymore)
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