From: "Henderson, Michael D" Date: 2002-09-25T11:52:09+09:00 Subject: RE: Newbie question: Calling a shell script from ruby I thought that Zubin's original question was about calling perl scripts. Don't know why, but I also assumed that he was on a unix box. I don't know if Windows has anything like the #! magic number. Mike -----Original Message----- From: GOTO Kentaro [mailto:gotoken@notwork.org] At Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:39:20 +0900, Henderson, Michael D wrote: > That works if foo.sh has "#! /usr/bin/env perl -" (or the not-made-up > equivalent), which is very much highly recommended. Thanks for helpful supplementation. But why perl for foo.sh? :) -- Gotoken