From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T12:32:04+09:00
Subject: Re: can I do windows shell scripting in ruby?

Jano Svitok wrote:
> arg1 = "sdas"
> arg2 = "sadada"
> `svn-admin #{arg1} #{arg2}`

This only works if the arguments do not contain spaces (otherwise you 
end up with more than 2 arguments!). In general, you should protect the 
arguments with quotes using Object#inspect:

`svn-admin #{arg1.inspect} #{arg2.inspect}`

There are special cases when you don't need the particular way non-ASCII 
characters are expressed (octal escape sequences), but this approach 
works for most purposes.

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