From: "A. Lester Buck III" <ruby-talk-reg@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T04:13:54+09:00
Subject: How to redirect $stdin to read from a string?


Hi,

I want to send a Windows popup from a Linux machine.  smbclient is
the standard utility, and  it will accept a file on standard
input to avoid terminal interaction, viz.

    smbclient -M netbiosname < /tmp/message.text

From my reading of the Ruby Cookbook, recipes 6.15 and 6.16, this
"should" work:

=========
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

require 'stringio'

$stdin = StringIO.new "This is the test message"

system("smbclient -M netbiosname")
=========

Alas, it ignores the input message and prompts for terminal input
terminated by ^D.


Could someone please show me the correct code to use in a Ruby
script to send a string to a Windows popup?


Thanks a lot!

Lester