From: Paul van Tilburg <paul@...>
Date: 2003-04-27T07:08:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I change directories?

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:50:46AM +0900, Tim Heaney wrote:
> Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:
> > How do I change directory from a Ruby program?
> > 
> > I tried 'system("cd #{dir}")' but it didn't work.
> 
> Ruby has its own chdir; you don't have to ask the system to cd.

And if you do, you spawn a shell which will chdir and exits
afterwards, leaving nothing done...

puts Dir.getwd
system("cd #{dir}; pwd")
puts Dir.getwd

Paul

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