I am new to ruby and trying to do some command line stuff.
Now I need to save the output of
exec 'cat /etc/system-release'
in a variable to scan it for a number.
I am new to ruby and trying to do some command line stuff. Now
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I am new to ruby and trying to do some command line stuff.
Now I need to save the output of
exec 'cat /etc/system-release'
in a variable to scan it for a number.
If you want to grab the output you’re better off using
systemor backticks (or for longer running tasks,IO.popen)In this case, it would be a lot faster to do
rather than creating extra processes just to do this.