From: Eric Marthinsen Date: 2008-03-13T11:28:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Trouble capturing output of spawned process Hi Paul- Thanks for your reply. I inspected the variable result and it is an empty string. I tried the syntax that you recommended, but it caused that commnd to hang. What is the "2>&1" supposed to do? Does that pipe stderr into stdout? Regards- Eric -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.