From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-11-07T18:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Assigne command ouput to a variable

Alle mercoledì 7 novembre 2007, Dragoescu Daniel ha scritto:
> Hello guys!
>
> I am a newbie in ruby and i have a question. I run a system command and i
> want that the ouput of that command to be assigne to a variable, something
> like this:
>
> var1 = system("du -s /mnt/hdd/ | cut -f1") puts var1  or
>
> var1 = exec("du -s /mnt/hdd/ | cut -f1") puts var1
>
> but system return 0 or 1 if command is failed or succesful, and exec don't
> assigne the output to variable var1.
>
> Can you help me? Thanks in advance.

You can use backticks instead of system: