# Description
In this PR I added two new methods to `Stack`, `stdout_file` and
`stderr_file`. These two modify the inner `StackOutDest` and set a
`File` into the `stdout` and `stderr` respectively. Different to the
`push_redirection` methods, these do not require to hold a guard up all
the time but require ownership of the stack.
This is primarly useful for applications that use `nu` as a language but
not the `nushell`.
This PR replaces my first attempt #12851 to add a way to capture
stdout/-err of external commands. Capturing the stdout without having to
write into a file is possible with crates like
[`os_pipe`](https://docs.rs/os_pipe), an example for this is given in
the doc comment of the `stdout_file` command and can be executed as a
doctest (although it doesn't validate that you actually got any data).
This implementation takes `File` as input to make it easier to implement
on different operating systems without having to worry about
`OwnedHandle` or `OwnedFd`. Also this doesn't expose any use `os_pipe`
to not leak its types into this API, making it depend on it.
As in my previous attempt, @IanManske guided me here.
# User-Facing Changes
This change has no effect on `nushell` and therefore no user-facing
changes.
# Tests + Formatting
This only exposes a new way of using already existing code and has
therefore no further testing. The doctest succeeds on my machine at
least (x86 Windows, 64 Bit).
# After Submitting
All the required documentation is already part of this PR.
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