From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T15:49:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to run script file using system command

On 26 Apr 2007, at 15:33, Dhiraj Girdhar wrote:

> Alex Gutteridge wrote:
>> On 26 Apr 2007, at 15:04, Dhiraj Girdhar wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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
>
> Please tell me if i have a script file say scriptfile, then how i can
> run that file using ruby.
> Please explaain with example.

I was a bit terse with my previous answer. I was just pointing out  
that you had a space between the initial '.' and the rest of your  
command which would cause system() to fail. Here is an example of how  
to run a script using system():

[alexg@powerbook]/Users/alexg(5): cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh

echo 'foo'
[alexg@powerbook]/Users/alexg(6): ./test.sh
foo
[alexg@powerbook]/Users/alexg(7): ruby -e "system('./test.sh')"
foo

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University