silently-1.1.4: Prevent or capture writing to stdout and other handles.

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System.IO.Silently

Description

Need to prevent output to the terminal, a file, or stderr? Need to capture it and use it for your own means? Now you can, with silence and capture.

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silence :: IO a -> IO aSource

Run an IO action while preventing all output to stdout.

hSilence :: [Handle] -> IO a -> IO aSource

Run an IO action while preventing all output to the given handles.

capture :: IO a -> IO (String, a)Source

Run an IO action while preventing and capturing all output to stdout. This will, as a side effect, create and delete a temp file in the temp directory or current directory if there is no temp directory.

hCapture :: [Handle] -> IO a -> IO (String, a)Source

Run an IO action while preventing and capturing all output to the given handles. This will, as a side effect, create and delete a temp file in the temp directory or current directory if there is no temp directory.