From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T11:41:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24626] Re: system('dir') and Windows 2000

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, GOTO Kentaro wrote:

>   system("cmd /c dir") # works fine
>   system("cmd/c dir")  # doesn't work

Ha! Thanks, that's my problem.

To stop problems with file with spaces in I also find doing ...
  system( 'cmd', '/c', 'rmdir', '/q', '/s', 'my dir')
effective.


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