From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T15:26:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run script file using system command

On 26 Apr 2007, at 15:04, Dhiraj Girdhar wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to run a script file using system command, but it is not
> working.
>
> Code... test.rb
>
> abc = system(". /export/home/dhiraj/scriptfile.sh")
> puts abc
>
> The value of abc is false.
>
> Please tell me why script file is not running?

If that is really what you ran then you have a space in your command.

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University