From: Tanaka Akira Date: 2011-02-10T19:21:18+09:00 Subject: Re: System calls with ` in parameters 2011/2/10 Gerad S. : > > `echo "#{someVar}" | ./some-script.py > "#{outputFile}"` If you use Ruby 1.9.2, Open3.pipline() provides a way to run a pipline without shell. % ruby -ropen3 -e 'Open3.pipeline(["echo", "foo`bar`baz"], ["head", "-6c", :out => "/tmp/qux"])' % od -c /tmp/qux 0000000 f o o ` b a 0000006 -- Tanaka Akira