From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2004-09-09T12:09:05+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 24171-24235 Hi, At Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:45:06 +0900, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote in [ruby-talk:111891]: > >> [ruby-dev:24231] system("") > >> > >> TANAKA Akira pointed out that system("") produces error while perl > >> gracefully ignores it. > > > > s/gracefully // > > > > Paul > > for me (in ruby) it simply produces false - isn't that graceful? In recent 1.9, an exception will raise when the command won't be found. See the thread from [ruby-talk:104856]. -- Nobu Nakada