From: "Sethna, Zubin" <ZSethna@...>
Date: 2002-09-25T11:58:08+09:00
Subject: RE: Newbie question: Calling a shell script from ruby

yes, my question was about calling perl scripts. I didn't state the platform
because it was a general question. However the platforms i'm interested in
are unix, linux and windows running cygwin so what has been suggested should
work on all those platforms.

regards

Zubin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henderson, Michael D [mailto:michael.d.henderson@lmco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:52 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> 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 <michael.d.henderson@lmco.com> 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
>