From: Tim Hunter Date: 2007-12-19T10:21:29+09:00 Subject: Re: system ( ) call but suppressing =>true jackster the jackle wrote: > > Is there any way to make system() suppress =>true? > > x = "/usr/bin/router.pl" > y = " " > z = "172.21.1.1" > system(x + y + z) > > thanks again... > > jackster You're trying this out in irb, aren't you? All you're seeing is irb printing the return value from system() so you can see what it returned. The system method doesn't really add "=>true" to the output from the command. -- RMagick: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/