From: GOTO Kentaro <gotoken@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T09:36:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Calling a shell script from ruby

At Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:50:01 +0900,
Sethna, Zubin <ZSethna@rsasecurity.com.au> wrote:
> Apologies if this question is already answered in the doc. How do I call a
> shell script from within ruby code? I have a lot of existing scripts that
> are written in perl and I'd like to call them from a ruby framework. I
> haven't found anything in the doc about this, maybe I missed something?

A simple way is

  system("/some/where/foo.sh")

See also:

  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.system
  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/man-1.4/syntax.html#command
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.fork
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.exec
  http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_io.html#IO.popen
  http://www.ruby-lang.org/~knu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/lib/open3.rb?rev=1.6.2.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup


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