From: MENON Jean-Francois <Jean-Francois.MENON@...>
Date: 2002-05-31T23:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: "system" and Windows

"Morris, Chris" wrote:
> 
> I'm using pragprog 1.6.6-0 dist. system has some problems 'out of the box'.
> Try the backticks instead, or substitute your system call a la
> http://ruby-talk.com/10006 (which I have packaged up in a unit of mine
> you'll see in the irb snippet below).
> 
> irb(main):007:0> system('"c:/temp/dir name/test.bat"')
> false
> irb(main):008:0> `"c:/temp/dir name/test.bat"`
> "\nS:\\SF-scrapware\\scrapware\\ruby\\cl\\index\\src>echo Test \nTest\n"
> irb(main):009:0> require 'cl/util/win'
> true
> irb(main):010:0> system('"c:/temp/dir name/test.bat"')
> 
> S:\SF-scrapware\scrapware\ruby\cl\index\src>echo Test
> Test
> 0
> irb(main):011:0> RUBY_VERSION
> "1.6.6"
> irb(main):012:0> RUBY_PLATFORM
> "i586-mswin32"
> irb(main):013:0>
> 
> > I have a problem with the "system" command under Windows.
> > when there is a space in the path of the binary, it doesn't
> > worK I have
> > try multiple arguments, double
> > quoting but it doesn't work.
> > for example:
> > system ('"c:\Program Files\App\cmd.exe"',"file")
> > doesn't work.
> > what is the good way to do ?

thx for your work
but it would be better to have the original ruby command work isn't it ?

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