From: sin kanti <sinkanti@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T07:52:35+09:00
Subject: how to read output of shell command to variable?

Hi,

In perl, we can do

$output = `file filename.txt`;

How can i do this in Ruby?
I know that there is system to run shell command like this;

system("file","filename.txt")

but how to return the output of "file" command to variable?


Sinchai