From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T04:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: catching a system call output

On 07/11/05, Tool69 <kibleur.christophe@gmail.com> wrote:
> So it works perfectly, but I got one more question :
> what can I do if I have a variable inside my system call, like :
>  system("latex -interaction=nonstopmode #{@myvar}")
> I tried with backticks, but it doesn't seems to work :
> `latex -interaction=nonstopmode #{@myvar}`
> Any solution ? Thanks again !
>
>
>

Works for me:
$ ruby -e 'test = 42; p `echo "#{test}"`'
"42\n"


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