From: mail02@... (Frank Benoit)
Date: 2002-01-02T09:05:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29998] Re: Execing command with backquotes

Thanks, this was really a stupid fault. :)

But still it doesn't work. :(

I tried this:

sourcedir = "c:\\temp\\from\\"
targetdir = "c:\\temp\\into\\"
commandstring = "xcopy /s /e #{sourcedir}*.* #{targetdir}"
puts commandstring

# Execute
print "Excecute   : >"
returnval = `#{commandstring}`
puts "<"

# Print Commandoutput
puts "Returnvalue: >" + returnval + "<"

Here is the output:

xcopy /s /e c:\temp\from\*.* c:\temp\into\
Excecute   : ><
Returnvalue: ><

But still there is nothing copied. When I try the command
xcopy /s /e c:\temp\from\*.* c:\temp\into\
into console, it works fine.