From: Edwin van Leeuwen <edder@...>
Date: 2006-05-03T01:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling Shell Scripts from Ruby ?

> 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??
1 and 2. I always use
output = `Unix command`

You can also use Kernel.system, but I don't think that will return your 
output
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M002992

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