From: Stephen White <steve@...>
Date: 2000-09-02T19:00:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4745] Re: Piping in Ruby?

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Stephen White wrote:

> There's one construct I miss from shell scripts... The ability to pipe the
> output from one program into the input of another.
> 
> I've had a brief look through Ruby's syntax, and it appears that it's
> possible to assign different inputs and outputs, but nothing as quick
> and easy as the '|' convention used in shells.
> 
> Does this facility exist in Ruby, or could it be easily created?

A clarification... I want to pipe between procedures, not programs.

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