Awesome, thanks Brian. Great idea! Sonny. Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:56:48AM +0900, Sonny Chee wrote: >> I'm actually to trying to solve the following problem. I've been >> redirecting the contents of a_file to an os_command, ie: >> >> os_command < a_file >> >> Usually a_file is very small and I have to create this file before >> invoking the os_command. Is it possible to avoid the creation of a_file >> and just pass its contents directly to os_command? > > If you are running os_command from Ruby, use IO.popen to run it. You > then > get an IO object for a pipe to squirt data at it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.