From: luke (dot) Date: 2005-09-26T17:36:41+09:00 Subject: Re: noob question parameters passed in through the shell can be grabbed through the global array ARGV so .. for example, if in the shell i were to type: % ruby crawl.rb July 2005 "July" would be ARGV[0] and "2005" would be ARGV[1] luke ps) i'm a n00b too, so as far as i know this is right :> works for me with ssh anyway. "Dirk Meijer" wrote in message news:b1188aec0509252225733ce9b@mail.gmail.com... this may be a stupid question, and i might have even overlooked it in the pickaxe, but what code do i need to insert in my program so it takes parameters passed by the shell as variables? greetings, Dirk.