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Please help, I am stuck here —
irb> a = 'line of text\n line two\n line three' irb> system('cat > test_file << #{a}') cat: of: No such file or directory cat: text: No such file or directory => false
You need to quote the interpolated parameter:
And, cat is expecting a filename, not some text to append to test_file, so, this would work as I think you intended:
If you want to do this in pure Ruby let me know and I’ll give you an example.