Method: RubyCurses::TextView#pipe_output

Defined in:
lib/rbcurse/core/widgets/rtextview.rb

#pipe_output(pipeto, str) ⇒ Object

returns array of lines after running command on string passed TODO: need to close pipe other’s we’ll have a process lying around forever.



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# File 'lib/rbcurse/core/widgets/rtextview.rb', line 675

def pipe_output (pipeto, str)
  case str
  when String
    #str = str.split "\n"
    # okay
  when Array
    str = str.join "\n"
  end
  #pipeto = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t'
  #pipeto = %q{mail -s "my title" rahul}
  if pipeto != nil  # i was taking pipeto from a hash, so checking
    proc = IO.popen(pipeto, "w+")
    proc.puts str
    proc.close_write
    proc.readlines
  end
end