From: "Henderson, Michael D" Date: 2002-09-25T09:39:20+09:00 Subject: RE: Newbie question: Calling a shell script from ruby That works if foo.sh has "#! /usr/bin/env perl -" (or the not-made-up equivalent), which is very much highly recommended. Mike -----Original Message----- From: GOTO Kentaro [mailto:gotoken@notwork.org] A simple way is system("/some/where/foo.sh")