From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2006-04-30T09:38:37+09:00
Subject: Re: can a ruby script perform a chdir on win xp?

"Bill Guindon" <agorilla@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/29/06, Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> wrote:
>> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
>>
>> > [ ... ]
>>
>> Correction:
>>
>> >     @echo off
>> >     for /f "usebackq" %%i (`my-ruby-prog.rb`) do cd %i
>>       for /f "usebackq" %%i (`my-ruby-prog.rb`) do cd %%i
>
> I like the look of it, but it's not working here:
>
> c:\work\active\apps>cdir.bat
> (`cdir.rb`) was unexpected at this time.

Hmm ... I wonder if this needs to run in a .cmd file instead of a .bat
file.  Under winxp, it works for me in a .cmd file exactly as written.
Maybe if you rename your file to be cdir.cmd ... ???


> cdir.bat:
> --------------------
> @echo off
> for /f "usebackq" %%i (`cdir.rb`) do cd %%i
> --------------------
>
> cdir.rb:
> --------------------
> cwd = '\windows'
> puts cwd
> exit(0)
> --------------------

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