From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-09-04T19:30:06+09:00
Subject: Re: declare a shell alias in a ruby file

At 2009-09-04 04:32AM, "Jean-S�bastien" wrote:
>  On 3 sep, 18:16, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > The only way you can do this is from the original shell itself. Either
> > type your alias command at the shell prompt, or put it in a file and do
> >
> > � . myscript
> >
> > The dot (.) means "read this file and execute it as commands within this
> > shell"
>  
>  ". myscript" doesn't not work for me. It doesn't read my file as a
>  ruby one, althrough my file is starting by "#!/usr/bin/env ruby".

Brian is saying that the ruby script writes shell commands to a file
named "myscript" (instead of printing them to stdout).  Then the shell
will source that file (instead of 'eval'-ing its stdin).

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