From: Motohiro KOSAKI Date: 2011-02-15T19:25:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35247] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#4396] windows commands starting with "@" should run at all even though command string is quoted by `"'. Issue #4396 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI. Hi Jon, Thanks for good demonstration. It encourage to me very much. But #3 is a bit misleading. ^ was removed when command line parsing (ie python interpreter invoking) phase. therefore system() haven't seen ^. Example, Please see following one liner. c:\ruby\trunk\build>python -c "print \"^@echo foo\"" @echo foo ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4396 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org