From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T19:44:36+09:00
Subject: Re: launch external program

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 18. Jun 2009, 05:45:08 +0900 schrieb Robert Klemme:
> On 17.06.2009 16:02, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>>   output = ""
>>   t = Thread.new { output << `somecmd` }
>>   ...
>>   t.alive? or puts "The full output is:", output
>
> You can do this as well:
>
> t = Thread.new { `somecmd` }
> ...
> output = t.value

Gosh, that's the programming style I was looking for.

Bertram


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