From: John Johnson <johnatl@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T01:32:08+09:00
Subject: Re: IO and an encoded email attachment

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:26:37 -0400, Jon Leighton <turnip@turnipspatch.com>  
wrote:

> appears to come down to Ruby treating the base64 encoded attachment
> really weirdly when doing IO stuff.
> I have this small script (you can ignore the gsub it doesn't make a
> difference):
> text = $stdin.read.gsub(/([`\$\\"])/, '\\\\\1')
> command = 'echo "' + text + '"'
> output = `#{command}`

This is probably because the echo command is a command that is built into  
the shell. Try finding an echo program, like this:
which echo
Then use that with the full path in the command= line.
It worked for me after I did that.

Regards,
   JJ


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