From: Wang Dong <wangdong2@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T11:55:09+09:00
Subject: Re: how to run a command line command

also %x(vim somefile)

"nephish" <nephish@gmail.com> 
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> On Mar 5, 1:41 pm, "Dale Martenson" <dale.marten...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> cool enough, works great, thanks
> sk
>