Thanks for your help so far guys.

Is this possible to do yet be able to get the stderr as well?

I'm trying to use Open3, but am having trobules to get the output as
it's occurring. 

db

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:48:58AM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> maybe something like this:
> 
> def doit(command)
>   IO.popen("command","r") do |io|
>     io.each { |line| puts line }
>   end
> 
>   # return status
>   $?
> end
> 
>     robert
> 
> "Daniel Bretoi" <lists / debonair.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:20030326165818.GC99575 / zone.syracuse.net...
> > > Personally I do:
> > >
> > >    make >make.out 2>&1
> >
> >
> > I need to see the output to the screen while doing it. :/
> >
> > > You could write a different version of 'tee' which spawns the process
> of
> > > interest (ls) itself, and passes back the right return code: you'd run
> it as
> > >
> > >    teepee out ls /sldjclsc
> > >
> >
> > I thought of that. What in ruby would enable me to print output while
> > it's happening? A systemcall will let me see it. I can' twait for the
> > process to finish before seing output as some of the executions can take
> > hours, and there is useful output in the meantime.
> >
> > db
> >
> 

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