From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-05-24T20:58:47+09:00
Subject: Re: OS independent scripts, system calls on Windows and Linux

Hi,

At Fri, 24 May 2002 20:38:59 +0900,
Tobias Reif wrote:
> I'm not that experienced yet, so I might miss some obvious
> solutions, but AFAICS, the backtick system call
> mechanism returns stdout/sterr, but is not OS independent.

The backtick returns stdout only and is almostly system
independent.

> The system() method seems to be OS independent, but doesn't
> return anything, IIRC. (again: I didn't yet test or read
> enough; please correct my assumptions)

Correct.  It's OS independent to the same extent as the
backtick.

> Perhaps something like:
> 
> commands = # ...
> commands.each do |cmd|
     system(cmd) or raise(cmd)
> end

-- 
Nobu Nakada