From: Dany Cayouette <danyc@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T11:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Nuby: 'importing shell script variables' eval/proc/binding

Guillaume Marcais wrote:

> 
> Two solutions to you problem. The first one shell_expand actually calls
> the shell. So the expansion should be exactly what it is supposed to be.
> But it is probably fragile: on my system, the variable UID is already
> defined and read-only, and it would break shell_expand. 
> 
....
> The other one tries to mimic the shell variable expansion in ruby. Of
>
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Guillaume.
> 
wow...  I was really going down the wrong path.  The 'script' example 
given was 'bogus'.  UID was probably just a wrong example to use.  For 
my simple case, both solution given should work.  Thanks a lot for the help.
Dany