From: I did not <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-10-28T23:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: run linux commands as ruby scripts

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:55:47 +0900, nkb wrote:

> Hi.
> I've 2 commands to run on my Linux.
> A "ls -l" command, followed by a tar command. I would like to have the 
> commands in separate lines.
> 
> I tried this
> 
> exec "ls -l"
> exec "tar tvf myfilename"
> 
> Only the "ls -l" is executed. I'm not sure what is happening. Is it 
> possible to execute a series of commands in Ruby? Thanks for any help.

Use back quotes:

a=`ls -l`
b=`tar tvf yourfilename`

`cmd` returns STDOUT from the cmd.
`cmd 2>&1` is you want STDERR (mixed with STDOUT)

Look into popen and popen3 if you need to interact with cmd

Hth.