From: Kevin Skrenes <kevin.skrenes@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T07:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing shell commands from Ruby...  again.

Stefano Crocco wrote:
> Alle venerd狸 16 marzo 2007, Kevin Skrenes ha scritto:
> Are you sure that the second END_OF_STRING is right at the beginning of 
> the
> line?
>
> ...
> 
> If you really want some spaces before the closing END_OF_STRING, you 
> should
> use the <<- form

Well, I didn't have any indenting going on, but the <<- syntax fixed the 
problem anyway.  It's probably just my crappy editor.

It would seem that everything is working - the system method executes 
and returns true, and if I print out the command, it's identical to what 
was in my batch file, but the batch file creates the desired output, and 
the system method creates nothing.

Could it be an issue of each line hitting the shell before the previous 
line has completed?  I need to research Robert's IO.popen solution to 
get a better grasp of what's happening there - perhaps that method is 
more appropriate.

Thanks, everybody, for all your help.

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