From: "R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX" <sentinel1879@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T16:46:22+09:00
Subject: Re: editing text using $EDITOR from program

R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX wrote:

> 
> However, since "mail -s" requires both input, as well as some command 
> line parameters (title and emailid), i was not clear whether this method 
> would work.
> 
> thx.

This works:

def pipe_output (str)

    pipeto = %q{mail -s "a title" myemail }
    if pipeto != nil  # i was taking pipeto from a hash, so checking
      proc = IO.popen(pipeto, "w+")
      proc.puts str
      proc.close_write
      #puts proc.gets
    end
end

str = "this is some data to go in mail"
pipe_output str

Not sure which is cleaner and more reliable though, this way or:

cmd = %q{cat file.txt | mail -s "title" email}
system(cmd)
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