From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T10:56:01+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.popen - continuous output

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On 7/19/07, Andy Koch <andy.koch@pc-doctor.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to get a continuous output stream with IO.popen('xxx')
>
> example,
>
> IO.popen('tail -f some_log_file')...
>
> where the goal is to see the tail output as it's generating, rather than
> waiting for the process to complete to dump the generated output.



I know this is possible with EventMachine's version of popen. If no one else
comes up with a standard way to do it, look at EventMachine.

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