From: Sven Schott <sven.schott@...>
Date: 2009-11-05T11:39:20+09:00
Subject: Re: redirection Windows shell out to variable

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You can use the backtick (or backquote) operator ` which is ASCII character
96:

e.g.

a = `dir`

which will give you a string with the stdout of the executed shell. Not that
I would recommend using it with dir mind you. :)


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM, born in USSR <psixxx@bk.ru> wrote:

> i want to execute Windows shell commands in my script so that the result
> came back in a variable and the new window of a Windows command line
> (MS-DOS-session) didn't open.
> i write:
> > a='dir'
> > system(a)
> and i see out of 'dir' in window of command line, but i need to get it
> into local variable.
> And another question:
> every time when rubyscript was run command line window is opening, even
> if i compile script by exerb. Is it possible to hide window or run
> script/rubyexefile without command line window and how if yes?
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