From: Danny Challis <dannychallis@...>
Date: 2010-12-30T03:10:16+09:00
Subject: platform independent piped input stream from system call

Hi all,
   I want to get an input stream from a system command in this manner:

f = open("|ls")
while( [not end of output] )
  f.gets
end

but I would like it to be platform independent.  The output of the
command I'll be using is massive (hundreds of GB) so I cannot load to
memory or write to a temp file. Is there a good platform-independent way
to do this?

Thanks!

Danny.

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