From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2002-05-17T16:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: 10000 images windows shell scripting

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Henning von Rosen wrote:

> How do I accomplish the simple invocation from a ruby script of a program
> that I normally start from the DOS prompt.
> The backslash doesn't work, and I don't get the workarounds mantiond for
> shell commands to work, or is that not the same thing?
>
> I feel really newbie-ish about this, and I really need it to work very
> soon. Hints/links apprechiated. I'v got 10000 images to vectorize, doing it
> by hand won't do any good. Doing it with Ruby would be nice.
>
> amike via Henning
>


I use...
    def cmd( *args)
      dosArgs = Array.new
      dosArgs.push args.shift # Get the command...
      args.each do |arg|
        if arg =~ %r{^/} then #its an option...
          dosArgs.push arg
        else
          dosArgs.push dosish( arg)
        end
      end
      @log.puts 'CMD> ' + dosArgs.join(' ')
      dosArgs.unshift('/c')
      dosArgs.unshift('cmd')
      system( *dosArgs)
    end

    def dosish( dir)
      dir.gsub( %r{/}, '\\')
    end

Does a couple of other nifty things like convert unixish / to dosish \ in
filenames and writes a log of what it is up to @log.


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