How to run a command line command

ruby-talk
1

lo there all
i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
terminal, i use
./myprogram
or /home/myuser/myprogram

how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?

thanks
sk

2

There are a number of ways to accomplish this:

     system( 'vim somefile' )

or

     `vim somefile`

Note: those are back ticks by the way.

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On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:

lo there all
i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
terminal, i use
/myprogram
or /home/myuser/myprogram

how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?

thanks
sk

3

cool enough, works great, thanks
sk

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On Mar 5, 1:41 pm, "Dale Martenson" <dale.marten...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:

> lo there all
> i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
> i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
> terminal, i use
> /myprogram
> or /home/myuser/myprogram

> how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?

> thanks
> sk

There are a number of ways to accomplish this:

     system( 'vim somefile' )

or

     `vim somefile`

Note: those are back ticks by the way.

4

Dale Martenson wrote:

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On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:

sk

There are a number of ways to accomplish this:

     system( 'vim somefile' )

or

     `vim somefile`

Note: those are back ticks by the way.

I avoid the latter unless I need the output generated by the command. By
doing so, I bypass a bunch of needless processing (capture command's
STDOUT to a newly allocated string buffer), or so I think. Does anyone
know for sure?

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5

also %x(vim somefile)

"nephish" <nephish@gmail.com>
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On Mar 5, 1:41 pm, "Dale Martenson" <dale.marten...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 5, 12:22 pm, "shawn bright" <neph...@gmail.com> wrote:

> lo there all
> i have an app that i want to launch an application from.
> i use linux with a bash shell. If i want to launch a program from my
> terminal, i use
> /myprogram
> or /home/myuser/myprogram

> how could i do something like this from a ruby script ?

> thanks
> sk

There are a number of ways to accomplish this:

     system( 'vim somefile' )

or

     `vim somefile`

Note: those are back ticks by the way.

cool enough, works great, thanks
sk

6

I wonder how that one escaped my attention. Thanks for mentioning it.

How does it work? Like ``, or system(), or . . . what?

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:55:09AM +0900, Wang Dong wrote:

also %x(vim somefile)

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