From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T03:18:12+09:00
Subject: Re: HOWTO Use Veriables inside of Regexp and Commands?


On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Karl Bennett wrote:

> Awesome thanks to you both :)
>
> Craig your answer is exactly what I was looking for :)
>
> And thanks to you Keith I have another very interesting class to  
> look at
> ;)
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

Note that puts `command` is sort of redundant, if you don' want to  
store the results in the string

system("command") will send the output to the standard output,  
without allocating a big string. Other methods you may want to look  
into are IO.popen .