From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T18:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Executing shell commands from Ruby...  again.

On 16.03.2007 23:37, Kevin Skrenes wrote:
> 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.

The output of system goes to stdout.  If you want to capture it the 
popen method is better.

> Could it be an issue of each line hitting the shell before the previous 
> line has completed?

No, normally not.  Unless of course you tell the shell to put things 
into background.

 >  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.

Kind regards

	robert