By "testing" you just mean "running", right?
James Byrne wrote:
> How does one pass a command line, including arguments, from a Ruby
> script to the shell. Specifically
>
> some_method("#...@script} -o #...@outfile} -f #...@format}")
>
> I have tried Kernel.` Kernel.system, %x but have not hit on a correct
> syntax yet.
It's just system(""). If your variables are valid, if your script is in the
current right folder, and if your @outfile has no spaces in it, then the above
should work with system("").
What error message do you get?
And note you can use popen() to route the output into a string in your
program...
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