From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-09-01T17:48:59+09:00
Subject: Re: `echo %!(*`

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:46:24AM +0900, Tom Felker wrote:
> 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?

You can call it explicitly like this:

    Kernel.send(:`, "ls /etc")

However unlike system, backtick doesn't let you pass a line already broken
into arguments:

    Kernel.send(:`, "ls", "/etc")
    #>> ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments(2 for 1)

so that doesn't help you.

Regards,

Brian.