From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-12T20:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Sigh! I'm depressed. Debian vs Ruby and the backtick and subshells

 >> build@ws1419:~/AutomatedBuild/test$ ruby -e 'system("ls
 >> NOFILEWITHTHISNAME&>foo")'

Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:

> I am using Debian sid, which sh is bash.
> And, in fact, I hate ruby's way of system call. Ugly and hard to use and 
> stupid hardcoded.

The choice of `` is deliberate. It's to inspire you to get off your lazy butt 
and learn the Ruby-internal way to do something, such as Pathname.glob. There's 
always a way to avoid a shell command...

-- 
   Phlip