From: pere.noel@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E8re_No=EBl?=)
Date: 2006-12-11T20:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.chdir("..") versus `cd ..`

Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:

> 
>   When you're using backquotes, Ruby forks a shell and feeds it with the
> command line given. With `cd ..`, you *do* change the current working
> directory... for the forked shell. Not for the Ruby program... And the
> forked shell dies immediately after the command is finished, so no way
> of doing so. However, if you need to run only one command in another
> directory, you might try:
> 
> `cd ..; a_nice_command`

yes, thanks for all (and to all answers) it's clear enough to me right
now )))

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P�re No�l