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authormo khan <mo@mokhan.ca>2013-08-28 07:20:13 -0600
committermo khan <mo@mokhan.ca>2013-08-28 07:20:13 -0600
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+# This example will return a file descriptor (IO object). Reading from it
+# will return what was printed to STDOUT from the shell command.
+IO.popen('ls')
+