Something that isn't mentioned in the Ruby manual online (http://
www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.system) is that the
entire path is needed as well.
Of course, that is a best practice, but I spent some time working
through this as an issue.
Additionally, I wrote a short test.sh script that does an exit with a
value. The command I used in ruby was:
retval = system("/path/to/test.sh")
when this is run the values for 'retval' and $? are as follows:
#exit 0 -> true $?=0
#exit 1 -> false $?=256
#exit 2 -> false $?=512
#exit 3 -> false $?=768
#exit 4 -> false $?=1024
#exit 5 -> false $?=1280
#exit -1 -> false $?=65280
Can anyone explain the $? values? It is supposed to contain a
'detailed error code'.
By the looks of it, some sort of multiple of 256.
Mike B.