From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T11:59:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Running shell scripts

On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Une B�vue wrote:

> Une B�vue <unbewusst.sein@weltanschauung.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> ri Kernel#system
>
> better (on mac os x) :
>
>  ri Kernel\#system

The first version works fine on my OS X box:

Welcome to Darwin!
Firefly:~$ ri -T Kernel#system
---------------------------------------------------------- Kernel#system
      system(cmd [, arg, ...])    => true or false
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Executes _cmd_ in a subshell, returning +true+ if the command was
      found and ran successfully, +false+ otherwise. An error status is
      available in +$?+. The arguments are processed in the same way as
      for +Kernel::exec+.

         system("echo *")
         system("echo", "*")

      _produces:_

         config.h main.rb
         *

James Edward Gray II