From: Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@...>
Date: 2004-10-02T04:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as a shell (was Re: irb: a great tool in it's own right)

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:53:07 +0900, Eivind Eklund <eeklund@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> 
> On the subject (if not the Subject:): Have anybody played with make it
> possible to use Ruby for running sort-of shell scripts?  Ie, including
> pipes etc.  As it is, there are some programs that call a lot of shell
> commands that I write in sh instead of Ruby, and where I'd really like
> to do them in Ruby.

Not sure exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps you'd find the
Session library useful for driving external programs:

  http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/session/

andrew

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