From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-09-01T07:51:55+09:00
Subject: Re: `echo %!(*`

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking about backtick 
interpolation.  Can you give me a simple example of what you'd like the 
backtick to do so I understand beter?

As for renaming a file, would File.rename do what you want?  :

dcarrera ~ $ ls *.mp3
BadlyNamedFile.mp3
dcarrera ~ $ ruby -e 'File.rename("BadlyNamedFile.mp3", "NewName.mp3")'
dcarrera ~ $ ls *.mp3
NewName.mp3


On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:46:24AM +0900, Tom Felker wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Does anyone know a way to do backtick interpolation while protecting the
> command's arguments from the shell, or bypassing the shell entirely?  I'm
> writing a script to rename badly named music files, and I have to pass the
> bad name to vorbiscomment and read it's output.
> 
> Apparently Kernel::` is a method, but I can't figure out how to call it
> with my own arguments.  Is there a non-punctuation name for it?  This
> would only be useful if it could accept an argument list as an array and
> not use the shell, as Kernel::system does.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Tom Felker, <tcfelker@mtco.com>
> <http://vlevel.sourceforge.net> - Stop fiddling with the volume knob.
> 
> I'm not comfortable with an idea that's not constantly being challenged.
> 

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