From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T14:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Piping problem

On Nov 24, 10:52 am, Pawel Radecki <pawel.j.rade...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I want to execute it on the Windows XP box with a pipe to redirect
> results so I know that:
>
> reverse.rb sample.txt | reverse.rb

Well, you've defined reverse.rb to read from stdin, but you're passing
it a file with no stdin. I think in XP there is a "type" command that
does what "cat" does on posix systems (outputs contents of file to
stdout), so I think you want this:

type sample.txt | reverse.rb | reverse.rb

I don't have an XP box to test on, but that works with "cat" on linux.
(Ps. Does XP's cmd.exe support pipes "|"? Or are you using cygwin or
something similar? (If so, you may have a version of "cat"
available.))

Regards,
Jordan