From: matt_neuburg@... (Matt Neuburg)
Date: 2009-07-25T11:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: popen needs escaped pathname?

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Matt Neuburg wrote:
> > I am using popen to pipe some text through a Perl script and I've just
> > discovered (accidentally) that the pathname for this script has to be
> > explicitly escaped - it must not contain unescaped spaces. This
> > surprised me because elsewhere in Ruby this does not appear to be the
> > case (in "require", for example). What is the rule here? Thx - m. 
> 
> It's a shell thing...

Right, I see; I'm talking directly to the shell...

I think the docs should tell me this!

So the same syntax that works in backticks will work here.

Thx - m.