It was surprising when the following code froze:
require 'open3'
i, o, e = Open3::popen3('/bin/bash')
c = o.getc
puts c.chr # expecting the first character of my bash prompt
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Aleksandr Levchuk
University of California, Riverside
1-951-368-0004
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man bash: it behaves differently depending on whether it's a login shell or
not and whether connected to a tty or not. you may want to try out my session
lib
harp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'rubygems' # gem install session - http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople/
require 'session'
bash = Session::Bash.new
stdout, stderr = bash.execute 'export a=42'
stdout, stderr = bash.execute 'echo $a'
puts stdout
bash.execute 'date', :stdout => STDOUT
harp:~ > ruby a.rb
42
Tue Jan 9 08:00:47 MST 2007
regards.
-a
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Aleksandr Levchuk wrote:
It was surprising when the following code froze:
require 'open3'
i, o, e = Open3::popen3('/bin/bash')
c = o.getc
puts c.chr # expecting the first character of my bash prompt
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in the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- the dalai lama