From: Mike Hall <mghallNo@...>
Date: 2004-06-21T07:13:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Subprocesses on UNIX/Linux

Jamis Buck  wrote:

>Use backticks:
>
>   a = `ls -l`


Or the "%x" string quote thingamabob:

   a = %x{ls -l}

(Use whatever quote characters you want.)