From: Logan Capaldo Date: 2006-03-09T03:13:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Call Perl script from Ruby --Apple-Mail-28-325625152 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Steve Peters wrote: > Kernel.exec should be the same as using the backquotes Eeek! It is certainly not the same as using backquotes. exec _replaces_ the currently running process with its argument, he'd never return to ruby to do additional processing. --Apple-Mail-28-325625152--