From: GOTO Kentaro Date: 2002-09-17T04:37:49+09:00 Subject: Re: back tick equivalent At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 04:16:53 +0900, Alan Chen wrote: > psout = `ps -elf | grep myusername`.split("\n") > > without the .split("\n") you'd get one large string. Or psout = `ps -elf`.grep(/myusername/) -- Gotoken