From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T05:56:58+09:00
Subject: Re: inner string to path

G��bor SEBESTY��N <segabor@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2005.10.17., at 21:14, Stefan Lang wrote:
>
>>     `ls '#{str}'`
>>
> Thanks! It workes with a slight modification: `ls \'#{str}'\`

Some remarks: you can always use the multi argument form of system:

str = 'your path with strange chars here'
system "ls", str

You can also use Ruby's built in file handling utilities directly to access 
file data like size, modification time, directory listings etc. See classes 
File and Dir plus the useful package fileutils.

Kind regards

    robert