From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-06-19T16:56:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to capture the output of a call to Kernel.system

2009/6/18 Michael Guterl <mguterl@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Wes Gamble<weyus@att.net> wrote:
>> I suspect that this is an extremely simple question to answer.
>>
>> How do you capture the output of a system call?
>>
>> For example, if I do this:
>>
>>>> x = system("date")
>> Thu Jun 18 13:00:00 CDT 2009
>> => true
>>>> x
>> => true
>>
>> I would like to capture the output of the date command.  How do I do it?
>
> x = `date`
>
> if you need to capture more than just stdout, i recommend the systemu gem.

There's also IO.popen and Open3.popen which are part of the standard
library IIRC.

Kind regards

robert

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