From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-04-30T09:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's %x{} -- running system commands


On Apr 29, 2010, at 16:19 , Daniel Waite wrote:

> The command I execute within %x{...}, if executed on the command line,
> works perfectly, every time.
> 
> If I run the same command within Ruby's %x{...}, I get mixed results.
> Sometimes a blank string, other times the expected output.
> 
> Why?

We can't possibly answer that without more information. Provide us enough information that we might be able to see the problem.