# Irb output

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/irb-output/64506>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 9, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/irb-output/64506 "2006-08-09T17:37:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/0ea827/32.png) [@newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newyorkdolluk)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/irb-output/64506/1 "2006-08-09T17:37:56Z")

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hi,

i have a ruby/watir script that i evoke from irb containing the  
following lines:

ie\_attach = Watir::IE.attach(:url, /text/)  
ie\_attach.show\_links

this will attach to an open browser containing a webpage with ‘text’ in  
the url and then display all the html objects in that page.

can anyone advise on how i can redirect this output in the irb window  
into a file

thanks.

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**Author:** ![newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/0ea827/32.png) [@newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newyorkdolluk)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/irb-output/64506/2 "2006-08-09T19:11:29Z")

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newyorkdolluk wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i have a ruby/watir script that i evoke from irb containing the  
> following lines:
> 
> ie\_attach = Watir::IE.attach(:url, /text/)  
> ie\_attach.show\_links
> 
> this will attach to an open browser containing a webpage with ‘text’ in  
> the url and then display all the html objects in that page.
> 
> can anyone advise on how i can redirect this output in the irb window  
> into a file
> 
> thanks.

require ‘watir’  
include Watir

ie = IE.attach(:url, “[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/76597#new](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/76597#new)”)  
file = File.new(“links.txt”,“w+”)

ie.links.each {|link|  
file.puts(“#{link.innerText} - #{link.href}”) unless  
link.innerText.empty?  
}

file.close()

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**Author:** ![newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/0ea827/32.png) [@newyorkdolluk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newyorkdolluk)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/irb-output/64506/3 "2006-08-15T14:12:14Z")

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Thats great thanks. Can this be modified so that we pull out only the  
index names (first column of output - looks like an integer) for those  
lines that have the text ‘example’ say in them?