From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-12-17T03:47:52+09:00
Subject: Re: redirect stdout for Kernel.system()?

Hi,

At Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:53:43 +0900,
Neil Spring wrote:
> I'd like to be able to say:
> 
>   $stdout=File.open("foo.out", "w")
>   Kernel.system("/bin/echo", "foo")
> 
> intead of:
> 
>   Kernel.system("/bin/echo foo > foo.out")
> 
> which requires two processes; forking a "/bin/sh" for
> something as simple as redirection is sad.

$stdout.reopen("foo.out")

-- 
Nobu Nakada