Berger, Daniel
11/24/2003 4:09:00 PM
> -----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