simple pipe : `echo -n "#{@prefix}" | pbcopy`

[Une Bévue]

@prefix is a string i want to put on the pasteboard (Mac OS X)

if from zsh :
echo -n "${prefix}" | pbcopy
this works well, i get the prefix in the pasteboard.

if from ruby :
`echo -n "#{@prefix}" | pbcopy`
instead of getting @prefix, i get :
-n @prefix\n

with an ending return i wanted to avoid with the "-n" arg to echo.

 

[Robert Klemme]

@prefix is a string i want to put on the pasteboard (Mac OS X)

if from zsh :
echo -n "${prefix}" | pbcopy
this works well, i get the prefix in the pasteboard.

if from ruby :
`echo -n "#{@prefix}" | pbcopy`
instead of getting @prefix, i get :
-n @prefix\n

with an ending return i wanted to avoid with the "-n" arg to echo.

You cannot open a pipe like this. Try

IO.popen(["pbcopy"], "w+") do |io|
io.write @prefix
io.close_write
IO.copy_stream(io, $stdout)
end

Kind regards

robert

 

[Une Bévue]

Le 29/05/13 20:14, Robert Klemme a écrit :

You cannot open a pipe like this. Try

IO.popen(["pbcopy"], "w+") do |io|
io.write @prefix
io.close_write
IO.copy_stream(io, $stdout)
end

Fine thanks, that works.