Back tick equivalent

Just install ruby last Friday and tried to find the back tick equivalent as
in shell script or perl to get the program output w/o resort to some popen
trickery. Can not find it in the reference book or faq ?

e.g. what is the equivalent of below perl statement

@psout = `ps -elf | grep myusername`;

Jack Wei-Chi Cheng

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Backticks should work the same in ruby, if you want an array of lines,
you can do the following,

psout = ps -elf | grep myusername.split(“\n”)

without the .split(“\n”) you’d get one large string.

– alan

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:04:24AM +0900, CHENG, WEI CHI (LNG) wrote:

Just install ruby last Friday and tried to find the back tick equivalent as
in shell script or perl to get the program output w/o resort to some popen
trickery. Can not find it in the reference book or faq ?

e.g. what is the equivalent of below perl statement

@psout = ps -elf | grep myusername;


Alan Chen
Digikata LLC
http://digikata.com

Hi,

What is your platform? At least on linux, I could do

puts `ps -elf | grep myusername`

In the pickaxe book, it is documented under Chapter “Built-in Classes and
Methods” in the Section “module Kernel” with method name “backquote”.

Regards,

Bill

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“CHENG, WEI CHI (LNG)” WEICHI.CHENG@lexisnexis.com wrote:

Just install ruby last Friday and tried to find the back tick equivalent as
in shell script or perl to get the program output w/o resort to some popen
trickery. Can not find it in the reference book or faq ?

e.g. what is the equivalent of below perl statement

@psout = ps -elf | grep myusername;

Or

psout = ps -elf.grep(/myusername/)

– Gotoken

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At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 04:16:53 +0900, Alan Chen wrote:

psout = ps -elf | grep myusername.split(“\n”)

without the .split(“\n”) you’d get one large string.