From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T04:59:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing shell command output and success?

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Ståle Z.H <szerener@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not quite sure if I understood you right, but you could probably do
> something like this:
> res = `command`  # note: ` not '
>
> This executes 'command' and stores the output in res.
Ståle,
        The problem with that is that it doesn't indicate whether the
command succeeded or failed.

         By the way, %x{ls /tmp} is identical to `ls /tmp`, it's just
easier to read :)

--Kyle