From: sin kanti <sinkanti@...>
Date: 2005-04-26T04:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: escape special charactor

i use
  $output = `command`
because i want to puts $output later

sinchai

On 4/25/05, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> sin kanti wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I write script to send password to unix shell.
> > But i found out that if the password contain special charactor such as &,
> > Shell will interpret it as background process.
> > So, it have to use \& instead.
> >
> > Is there any function can detect special char?
> > and return it is escape form? ( like \& )
> >
> > i found similar function in Regexp.escape, but it can't detect &
> 
> Are you using #system? If so, you can prevent the shell from expanding
> things by passing each shell argument as a separate ruby argument:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> system "echo foo&"
> foo
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> system "echo", "foo&"
> foo&
> => true
> 
>