From: Jim Crossley <jim@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T20:40:29+09:00
Subject: Re: system() and changing (path-)environment

Hi...

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

[...]

> shellscript.ksh calls the other scripts using relative path
> statements but when I use system("path2/shellscript.ksh"),
> shellscript.ksh is started with the rubyscript.rb-directory context
> and within shellscript.ksh, the call of "./anotherscript.ksh" or
> "path3/last_script.ksh" results in "script not found here you
> fool!".

[...]

> What do you suggest?

Try Dir.chdir(path) prior to the system calls, maybe?

Jim