Alex Eiras
4/12/2009 11:09:00 AM
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>
> Hello Group,
>
> Is there any way to retrieve an exit code of shell commands when called
> from ruby?
>
> ruby code :
>
> exec("ls") if fork.nil?
> Process.wait
>
> shell :
>
> # ls
> # echo $? <-- get this value in ruby
> --
>
As of Ruby 1.9, you indeed have the $? global variable, which references the
exit status of the last child process to terminate. In your example, exec
will replace the subprocess by running the given command, thus $? will
contain its exit status.
irb(main):001:0> exec('ls') if fork.nil?; Process.wait; puts $?
tmp
pid 5552 exit 0
irb(main):002:0> exec('cat /etc/sudoers') if fork.nil?; Process.wait; puts
$?
cat: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
pid 5556 exit 1
Hope it helps
Cheers
Alex