From: Charles Mills <cmills@...>
Date: 2005-07-15T08:35:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby can call external shell commands, right?

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> Preston-
>      Yes you can do that a few different ways:
> with backticks:    `mplayer myfile.mp3`
> or system:    system("mplayer myfile.mp3")
> or %x:          %x{ mplayer myfile.mp3 }
>

don't forget IO.popen and Process.new.

> HTH
> -Ezra
> On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use it to scrape the URL for one of my favorite radio
> > shows (All Things Considered) since it isn't available to me in
> > portable
> > format on Linux. I'd like to scrape the URL, parse the XML and as I
> > navigate the tree make external calls to mplayer, etc. Should this be
> > theoretically possible? Never done this with Ruby before.
> >
> > Preston
> >
>
> -Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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