From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-18T08:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: irb as a shell

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:22:45AM +0900, Mark Wilson wrote:
> system("ls *gz > list")
> a=File.open("list","r")
> b=a.readlines

Another way:

b = IO.popen("ls *gz","r").readlines     # ,"r" is optional