Any ideas on how to discard or reset the contents in a Process.StandardOutput, so we can discard the message of the day and any other initial content of a process?
A:
I don't know what you mean by discard but you may redirect the standard output:
When a Process writes text to its standard stream, that text is typically displayed on the console. By redirecting the StandardOutput stream, you can manipulate or suppress the output of a process.
Darin Dimitrov
2010-01-26 10:25:34
I'm already redirecting it to a reader. What I need to do is actually discard the contents of the underlying stream before the reader uses it
jacko
2010-01-26 10:27:57
+1
A:
You could to try something similar to:
Process.StandardOutput.BaseStream.SetLength(0);
process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
That way you'll read all content already written and to ignore it. Since that stream doesn't supports seek operations, you user will receive a "headerless" stream.
Rubens Farias
2010-01-26 10:35:24
+1
A:
Does Process.StandardOutput.DiscardBufferedData() not do what you want?
Alternatively just read from it until it's empty? Not very efficient I guess, but if it's just title fluff then it'll be one read.
JonB
2010-01-26 10:52:51