From: Dennis Newbold <dennisn@...>
Date: 2002-06-01T06:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: changing current directory


On Fri, 31 May 2002, Erik [ISO-8859-1] B�gfors wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:35, MENON Jean-Francois wrote:
> > hello,
> > is there a way to change the current directory into my ruby program so
> > that all the commands run with "system" will find files in current
> > directory ? (both with Linux and Windows?)
> > -- 
>
Try Dir.chdir("new_directory_name")
It will probably work OK on Windows, but I haven't tried it.
-dln-
 
> : [bagfors@detrius]$ ; ruby -e 'Dir.chdir "/tmp"; system "pwd"'
> /tmp
> 
> /Erik
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