From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T02:51:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby launching system apps?

The simplest way is to use "system" or `` (you can use Shell too, of
course). �he best way is to implement in Ruby all you do with awk and sed,
as it has (almost) everything those utilities offer.

Before I found Ruby, my favorite combination was sh/awk/sed. Now I do
everything of that kind in Ruby, however knowledge and long experience with
those utilities help me a lot, especially with regexp stuff.

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan" <falseflyboy@yahoo.comNONO>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Ruby launching system apps?


> I have a UNIX machine and I want a ruby app that can launch UNIX commands
> like awk or sed...how would I implement this?
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> use Shell.new?
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