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How to print out the value that subprocess prints with C#?


As is asked in this post, I can use Python's subprocess.Popen() function to print out the value from running ruby's code.

import subprocess
import sys

cmd = ["ruby", "/Users/smcho/Desktop/testit.rb"]
p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
for line in iter(p.stdout.readline, ''):
    print line, 
    sys.stdout.flush() 
p.wait()

How can I do the same thing with C#? How can one print the value what the subprocess prints out?


Solution

  • You need to redirect stdout when spawning the child process; MSDN has a complete example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.redirectstandardoutput.aspx

    (from MSDN):

     // Start the child process.
     Process p = new Process();
     // Redirect the output stream of the child process.
     p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
     p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
     p.StartInfo.FileName = "Write500Lines.exe";
     p.Start();
     // Do not wait for the child process to exit before
     // reading to the end of its redirected stream.
     // p.WaitForExit();
     // Read the output stream first and then wait.
     string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
     p.WaitForExit();