From: Jean-Julien Fleck <jeanjulien.fleck@...>
Date: 2010-07-19T17:04:08+09:00
Subject: Re: capture STDOUT data to a variable

Hello Shaun,

> I am fetching some data from windows using a simple ruby script using
> system command, which is outputting the data onto STDOUT. But I need the
> same to get dumped to a local variable.
> how can I acheive this? the code snippet I am using is as below
>
> result = system("D:\\softwares\\devcon.exe find *")

If it works on windows as it does on Mac and Linux, you just have to
use backsticks:

result = `D:\\softwares\\devcon.exe find *`

You could also look at IO.popen to get a bit more flexibility.

Cheers,

-- 
JJ Fleck
PCSI1 Lycée Kléber