From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-15T10:21:09+09:00
Subject: Re: simple ruby project layout question

David Masover wrote:
> 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...
>
>
Ah...so many ways to screw up. So little time.

t.

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