From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T16:39:01+09:00
Subject: Re: is it possible to pipe ruby to more / cat / arbitrary programs?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:12:37AM +0900, Tuan Bui wrote:
> I use Ruby as a scripting layer over another program, and I want to be 
> able to pipe the output of that program to unix programs.  Is this 
> possible?  I'm trying to do something like this:
> 
> 
> #this will return output from the program in a string
> programoutput = @program.send(input)
> 
> #destprogram might be cat, grep, more, less, any such program
> programoutput pipeoutput serr = Open3.popen3(destprogram)
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I posted a solution which I think does what you want at
http://ruby-talk.org/72502

eexcept I don't know what distinction you are trying to make between
"programoutput" and "pipeoutput".

Regards,

Brian.