From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2003-09-03T23:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [windows 9*] how to get the output of commands which contain backslashes?

Chris,

thank you very much for the tip! It works.

I appreciate any further feedback. Does the below work on "all" OSs and 
with most recent versions of Ruby? Mac, BSD, 1.8?
To anyone else replying: please CC me. TIA :)

Below is what I have now, I plan on including it in
http://www.pinkjuice.com/howto/vimxml/
http://www.pinkjuice.com/howto/vimxml/setup.xml

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# based on
# www.ruby-talk.org/9739 and
# www.ruby-talk.org/10006
# seems to be not necessary for Ruby 1.7.2+, see
# http://www.rubygarden.org/article.php?sid=240
# please feed back improvements:
# tobiasreif pinkjuice com

require 'Win32API'
require 'rbconfig'

alias oldBackquote `

def `(command)
   if Config::CONFIG["arch"] =~ /win/
     popen = Win32API.new("crtdll", "_popen", ['P','P'], 'L')
     pclose = Win32API.new("crtdll", "_pclose", ['L'], 'L')
     fread = Win32API.new("crtdll", "fread", ['P','L','L','L'], 'L')
     feof = Win32API.new("crtdll", "feof", ['L'], 'L')
     saved_stdout = $stdout.clone
     psBuffer = " " * 128
     rBuffer = ""
     f = popen.Call(command,"r")
     while feof.Call( f )==0
         l = fread.Call( psBuffer,1,128,f )
         rBuffer += psBuffer[0..l]
     end
     pclose.Call f
     $stdout.reopen(saved_stdout)
     rBuffer
   else
     oldBackquote command
   end
end

# test:

tidy_version_command_abs = '\for-programs\use\tidy\tidy.exe -v'
puts `#{tidy_version_command_abs}`

tidy_version_command = 'tidy -v'
puts `#{tidy_version_command}`

windows_version_command = 'ver'
puts `#{windows_version_command}`

ruby_version_command = 'ruby -v'
puts `#{ruby_version_command}`

java_version_command = 'java -version'
puts `#{java_version_command}`

xmllint_version_command = 'xmllint --version'
puts `#{xmllint_version_command}`

temp_path_command = 'echo %temp%'
puts `#{temp_path_command}`

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Tobi

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