Although the accepted answer is correct, it doesn’t cover the non-trivial case.
To stream output and handle it manually, use Stdio::piped()
and manually handle the .stdout
property on the child returned from calling spawn
, like this:
use std::process::{Command, Stdio};
use std::path::Path;
use std::io::{BufReader, BufRead};
pub fn exec_stream<P: AsRef<Path>>(binary: P, args: Vec<&'static str>) {
let mut cmd = Command::new(binary.as_ref())
.args(&args)
.stdout(Stdio::piped())
.spawn()
.unwrap();
{
let stdout = cmd.stdout.as_mut().unwrap();
let stdout_reader = BufReader::new(stdout);
let stdout_lines = stdout_reader.lines();
for line in stdout_lines {
println!("Read: {:?}", line);
}
}
cmd.wait().unwrap();
}
#[test]
fn test_long_running_process() {
exec_stream("findstr", vec!("/s", "sql", "C:\\tmp\\*"));
}
See also Merge child process stdout and stderr regarding catching the output from stderr and stdout simultaneously.