From: "Eric C." Date: 2010-12-05T13:22:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Entering password in shell Hi: Thanks for your response. However, I don't think that using the -v option works. I may not need to do it anyway because the process I was trying to do was install a gem on my local machine: `sudo gem install xxxx.gem` I found that you can require rake, and do a better job: require 'rake' Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg| pkg.need_zip = true pkg.need_tar = true end I don't know how this works, I'm trying it now. Thanks for help, Eric -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.