From: Louis J Scoras Date: 2006-10-30T21:05:14+09:00 Subject: Re: backtick and %x{} not the same? You can always be more explicit, of course, and help it find the command: `sh testme.sh` or $sh = ['/bin/bash','/bin/sh'].find {|x| File.executable? x} `$sh testme.sh` -- Lou.