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Ruby example of using Open3.popen3 with a select loop to read a child process's standard output and standard error streams.
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require 'open3' | |
# Returns true if all files are EOF | |
# | |
def all_eof(files) | |
files.find { |f| !f.eof }.nil? | |
end | |
command = "ls -l" | |
puts "Running command: #{command}" | |
BLOCK_SIZE = 1024 | |
Open3.popen3(command) do |stdin, stdout, stderr| | |
stdin.close_write | |
begin | |
files = [stdout, stderr] | |
until all_eof(files) do | |
ready = IO.select(files) | |
if ready | |
readable = ready[0] | |
# writable = ready[1] | |
# exceptions = ready[2] | |
readable.each do |f| | |
fileno = f.fileno | |
begin | |
data = f.read_nonblock(BLOCK_SIZE) | |
# Do something with the data... | |
puts "fileno: #{fileno}, data: #{data}" | |
rescue EOFError => e | |
puts "fileno: #{fileno} EOF" | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
rescue IOError => e | |
puts "IOError: #{e}" | |
end | |
end | |
puts "Done" |
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