From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T21:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Piping data in on the command line

Just read the IO $stdin, like:

$stdin.each { |line| puts "Found: #{line}" }

The < "operator" is a shell feature that will pass the content of a file to 
the programs standard input (stdin).

martin



On Wednesday 09 July 2008 08:22:15 James Coglan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I know you can get command line args using ARGV, but is there a way to use
> the '<' operator to pipe data into your program, as in
>
> ruby myprog.rb < ~/myfile.txt