From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-15T15:32:18+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin port system() problem

Hi,

At Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:00:38 +0900,
Nikolay Elkov wrote:
> When executing a windows command containig output redirection via ruby's
> system(), redirection doesn't work. Example:
> system("rsh>output.txt")
> dir outpu.txt
> No such file or directory
> 
> If I run the above script in Cygwin's bash shell it works as expected. How
> can I get it to work outside the shell? The ruby script needs to run as a
> cgi for IIS, so the other alternative is to get cgi to work inside bash. I
> haven't got the slightest clue how to do that, though. Any suggestions
> welcome.

system() under cygwin uses /bin/sh.exe, so you need to include
the $(cygwin)/bin direcrtory to PATH environment variable.
Bash does it automatically.

-- 
Nobu Nakada