From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-09-24T01:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: catching process output (Kernel#system)

Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>   In that case, the `command` syntax is perfectly adapted. (or system,
> for the conversion). In case you need to check the return value of the
> `commands`, use $? .
> 
>   If you need to work with bigger output, where it would not be suitable
> to store it all in a Ruby variable, give a look at IO.popen

Plus, an alternative syntax fpr `ls foo` is %x{ls foo}.

	robert