Getting output of system() calls in Ruby

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I’d like to expand & clarify chaos’s answer a bit.

If you surround your command with backticks, then you don’t need to (explicitly) call system() at all. The backticks execute the command and return the output as a string. You can then assign the value to a variable like so:

output = `ls`
p output

or

printf output # escapes newline chars

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