From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-19T18:28:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Return

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Sam Duncan <sduncan@wetafx.co.nz> wrote:
> On 19/10/11 08:32, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Darryl L. Pierce<mcpierce@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The goal of puts is to output text to the console.
>>
>> To be technical: It provides output to the OS's standard output
>> facility.
>
> $stdout = File.new('/dev/null', 'w')
> puts "ohai, I am my OS's standard output facility O_o"

Usually redirection is done via:

$stdout.reopen("/dev/null")

The reason is, that you simply exchange the reference of $stdout but
you do not modify the underlying file descriptor.  As soon as you
invoke another process you will see the output again.

Kind regards

robert

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