From: Dale Martenson <dale.martenson@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T04:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to run a command line command

On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lo there all
> i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
> i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
> terminal, i use
> /myprogram
> or  /home/myuser/myprogram
>
> how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?
>
> thanks
> sk


There are a number of ways to accomplish this:

     system( 'vim somefile' )

or

     `vim somefile`

Note: those are back ticks by the way.