From: Bob Ford Date: 2013-03-06T05:40:39+09:00 Subject: Re: telnet - how to loop through commands listed in a file unknown wrote in post #1100227: > Am 05.03.2013 19:07, schrieb Bob Ford: >> Hmmm, The files are entered from the command line using a getopt (e.g -f >> "file1 file2 file3"). >> >> I'll look into this some more. Thank you. >> > > "file1 file2 file3".split I invoke this script from the commandline like such ruby TelnetCmds.rb -h 192.168.1.10 -f "C:\{PATH_TO_FILE}\File1 C:\{PATH_TO_FILE}|File2" I've been trying to convert that string to an array but I get the same error. filenames = "#{$file_arg}.split(" ")" -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.