From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-10-08T23:16:51+09:00
Subject: Re: How to not display output of a system call.

Jerry Piazza wrote:
> Lets say I have a Windows command line program that runs the following:
> 
> system("del *.txt")
> 
> How do I NOT display the output from the del command?

You could try something like this:

  system("del *.txt >NUL")

Otherwise try IO.popen, which can capture the output of the command, so 
you can throw it away.
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