From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T02:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Lower verbosity in IRB?

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> logfile=File.open("backup_08192008.log"){|f| f.read()}
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> Normally, its fine that irb will barf out the contents of the file to
> screen.  Normally it's even useful....



You need to get the statement to evaluate to something short, preferably
nil.

(log = File.read('backup_08192008.log')) && nil

Then irb will print nil but log will still contain the data.

James
http://blog.jcoglan.com
http://github.com/jcoglan

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