From: "lance.sanchez@..." Date: 2008-03-03T03:11:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby in windows thanks, thats giving me the io objects back. On Mar 2, 1:49 am, "Jano Svitok" wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:24 AM, lance.sanc...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > i'm trying to script administrative tasks in windows and i'm really > >  not feeling the ruby love, does anyone have some suggestions on a way > >  of running commands and catching STDERR in windows? > > Try: > 1. win32-open3 gem > 2. use Kernel#system or `` (backticks) and redirect output to a file > or pipe. Windows from 2000 up supports stderr > redirection ( command 2> err.txt )