From: Patrick Li Date: 2008-08-22T02:09:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Lower verbosity in IRB? A simple workaround is to surround your code with begin/end statements. eg... begin logfile=File.open("backup_08192008.log"){|f| f.read()} logfile.size end will only print the logfile's size, and won't print the logfile contents. hope that's useful -patrick -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.