From: Fred Phillips <fophillips@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T08:03:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with accessing directory defined in ENV variables

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On Tue Aug 12 06:46:26 2008, Thomas Luedeke wrote:
> Ruby is giving me pure hell trying to access directories on a mounted
> drive.  Our network puts certain files on a temporary drive defined in
> our .profile file I'm running HP UX/11).
>=20
> If I ask for puts ENV['TMPDIR'], it knows what the pathway is (i.e. it
> gives /TEMP2002/t3905).
>=20
> If I issue a system command `echo $TMPDIR`, it also gives the right
> answer.
>=20
> However, if I try to change to that directory with a command such as
> Dir.chdir(" #{ENV['TMPDIR']} " ), I always get errors like this:

You don=E2=80=99t need the quotes, you can just do:

    Dir.chdir(ENV['TMPDIR'])

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Fred O. Phillips
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