From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T04:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing the output of an external program line by line

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> Aditya
>> 
> I've been using this:
> 
>     IO.popen("#{cmd} 2>&1") do |f|
>       while line = f.gets do
>         # do whatever you want with line
>       end
>     end
> 
> Note that this gets both stdout and stderr.

Thank you Tim and Markus. Both your methods work perfectly. Since I just 
needed to capture the program's output, I am using Tim's method.

Thanks,
Aditya
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