From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-15T14:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby -e not printing to stdout

Hi,

At Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:48:45 +0900,
Jim Freeze wrote:
>  Ok, I found the source, (it doesn't appear to be Ruby's
>  fault) but it's not clear to me how to correct it. 
>  I have wrapper csh script that calls exec 
>  on ruby. Exec is supposed to redirect stdio. Since I get
>  the version to print it appears to be working for stderr,
>  but not for stdout.
> 
>  % -> ruby.wrap -e 'puts $:.join("\n")'
> 
>  -> ./ruby.wrap -v
>  ruby 1.7.3 (2002-12-04) [i386-freebsd4.6]
>  % -> cat ruby.wrap 
>  #! /bin/csh -f
>  exec /home/jfreeze/ruby173/bin/ruby $argv[*]
> 
> Anyone know how to fix this?

The easiest and best way is to throw awy csh and use sh.
Scripting in csh is really mad thing.

#! /bin/sh
exec /home/jfreeze/ruby173/bin/ruby "$@"

-- 
Nobu Nakada