From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-11-25T01:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: redirect stdout

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reimer Behrends [mailto:behrends@cse.msu.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:52 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: redirect stdout
> 
> 
> T. Onoma (transami@runbox.com) wrote:
> >  I need to temporarily redirect standard output to nowhere. 
> Not sure  
> > how to do.
> 
> Assuming you run some *IX:
> 
> 	STDOUT.reopen "/dev/null", "w"
> 
> will redirect the standard output (including not just Ruby 
> output, but even the output of subprocesses) to /dev/null.
> 
> 			Reimer Behrends
> 

FYI, for Win32 you can redirect to "nul" or "nul:".  Yes, that's a
single 'l'.

Regards,

Dan