From: Urabe Shyouhei Date: 2010-09-30T17:03:07+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:32653] Re: IO.popen or `` with system()-like parameters? (2010/09/30 16:54), Hadmut Danisch wrote: > How would one read the output of an executed program without command > line expansion? IO.popen ["ls", "-lashi", "/ some path containing spaces"], "rb" do |fp| ... end # 1.9 and above. Good reason to use 1.9.