From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T05:56:17+09:00
Subject: Re: simple ruby project layout question

7stud -- wrote:
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>   
>> ".\script-name". When I finally caught the problem and flipped the
>> backslash, I felt pretty foolish. Not the first time, though!
>>
>>     
>
> Back slashes are dangerous in strings because of all the escape 
> sequences that can be used in strings.  \s = space, so your command was 
> interpreted as: ". cript-name".  I'm guessing your system looked for a 
> program named "." somewhere in your path, with the "cript-name" part 
> being an arg for the "." program.
>   

If that were the case, '.' is an alias for 'source', which means it 
would've taken a file called 'cript-name' in the current directory and 
executed it.

On the other hand, if those quotes were included, it would actually be 
looking for a program named '. cript-name', as spaces are allowed in 
filenames...