From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T22:30:13+09:00
Subject: Re: editing text using $EDITOR from program

On 7/6/10, R.. Kumar 1.9.1 OSX <sentinel1879@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

Either way should work fine, but I would go with popen, personally. I
think it's a little cleaner semantically; might be a tad more portable
too.