From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T07:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: how to read output of shell command to variable?

Hi --

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, sin kanti wrote:

> 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?

output = `file filename.txt`


David

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