One caveat to this is that you only get stdout using the backtick. You don't get the other streams (stderr, etc..). At least this is my experience on windows.
-andy On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Bill Agee <[email protected]> wrote: > To get the standard output of a command, you can enclose it in backticks, > like in Perl - see the related rdoc: > > http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M006001 > > Note that by default you'll get back one big string when you run the > command. But it sounds like you are looking to get an array in which each > line of output is in a separate element. To do that, just split the string > on newlines: > > myarray = `dir`.split(/\n/) > > Thanks > Bill- Show quoted text - > > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:01 AM, venky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> I am using system("dir") to execute commands in Command Prompt. >> >> I get the result(below) when I execute system("dir") command. I need >> to store the result in an array. >> I tried arr = system("dir") which stores true or false. Please throw >> some light on this >> >> Result: >> =================================== >> Volume in drive E has no label. >> Volume Serial Number is 603F-F8C6 >> >> Directory of E:\Temp >> >> 02/27/2009 07:05 PM <DIR> . >> 02/27/2009 07:05 PM <DIR> .. >> 03/03/2009 07:11 PM 65 t.rb >> 02/27/2009 06:22 PM 3,251 temp.rb >> 02/27/2009 07:05 PM 1,011 temp2.rb >> 3 File(s) 4,327 bytes >> 2 Dir(s) 22,208,159,744 bytes free >> ===================================== >> >> Thanks, >> Venkat >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
