From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T01:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling Shell Scripts from Ruby ?

Dinesh Umanath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions
>
> 1)Is it possible to call "Shell Scripts" from ruby? Say if i have a 
> shell sciprt named "test.sh", how can i call this from ruby? Also if i 
> can call like that,is it possible to get the output of that script 
> passed back to ruby?
>
> 2)How can i call any "Unix command" residing from a ruby program??
>
>
> Thank You
> Dinesh
>
>   

1 & 2) Use `test.sh` (or system("test.sh") if you do NOT want the output)


-Justin