From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T04:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: inner string to path

On Monday 17 October 2005 21:08, G�bor SEBESTY�N wrote:
> How can I easily conver a string containing path
>
>      str = "/home/my folder/�ccented l�tt�rs/having (this)"
>
> to one that
>
>      `ls #{str}`
>
> UNIX command can understand? It will surely fail at least due to
> parenthesis and space characters.

Usually it is enough to put quotes around the path:

    `ls '#{str}'`

HTH,
  Stefan