From: "CHENG, WEI CHI (LNG)" Date: 2002-09-17T04:04:24+09:00 Subject: back tick equivalent Just install ruby last Friday and tried to find the back tick equivalent as in shell script or perl to get the program output w/o resort to some popen trickery. Can not find it in the reference book or faq ? e.g. what is the equivalent of below perl statement @psout = `ps -elf | grep myusername`; Jack Wei-Chi Cheng Lexis-Nexis Corporation Development Services Team Framework group 9555 Springboro Pike Miamisburg, OH45342 Location, B5F4S95 * http://lnxhome/ds * 937-865-6800, ext. 54028 * mailto:uchenwc@lexis-nexis.com