From: Michael Malone <michael.malone@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T05:05:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell scripting & Windows/Linux Paths

Juan Zanos wrote:
> Yes, I'm mostly concerned with paths.   I'd like to write everything 
> in Unix style and just have it  automatically converted somehow so 
> everything stays relatively legible.
>
>
One good pattern for dealing with this I have seen is simply to have a 
shell_command method somewhere, so you can do different things if you're 
on different OSs.  And to figure out dynamically which OS you're working 
with,  use this:

require 'rbconfig'
if Config::CONFIG["target_os"] == 'linux'
    OS = 'linux'
else
    OS = 'windows' #presumably
end

Yes, I am aware that that code is specific to linux/windows but it was 
enough for me.  You're a puts call away from getting the required 
options.  That sort of thing can make life easier if you want to 
redirect to /dev/null or NUL and only want to change your command in one 
place.

Michael

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