From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T16:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a process-spawning idiot.

Devin Mullins wrote:

> I'm looking for a method that, like Kernel#` and IO::popen, allows me to
> call out to the system and grab its stdout. However, I'd like it to
> accept multiple args (like Kernel#system), so I don't have to worry
> about filenames with spaces and backslashes and the like. Alternatively,
> I'll take a lib that escapes strings for Kernel#`, provided it works on
> win32, unix, cygwin...
> 
> I'm sure I'm just missing the obvious. Help?

You want to what? You want to execute an arbitrary system command and
collect the command's output?

data = `command arg1 arg2 arg3`

Obviously if the provided command line works in a shell, it will work here,
and vice versa.

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Paul Lutus
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