From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T05:01:35+09:00
Subject: Re: how to read output of shell command to variable?

On Apr 3, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:

> I'd prefer Perl's qx:
>
> $output = qx{file filename.txt}
>
> In Ruby that is
>
> output = x{file filename.txt}

I'm pretty sure you meant:

output = %x{file filename.txt}

:)

James Edward Gray II