>>>>> "B" == Ben Tilly <ben_tilly / hotmail.com> writes:

B> bash-2.01$ ruby -e 'puts Dir.glob("this\\ that")'

pigeon% ls -al
total 5
drwxr-xr-x    2 ts       ts           1024 Feb 24 14:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x   16 ts       ts           4096 Feb 24 14:17 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 ts       ts              0 Feb 24 14:45 this that
pigeon% 

pigeon% /usr/bin/ruby -ve 'puts Dir.glob("this\\ that")'
ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-25) [i686-linux]
pigeon% 

pigeon% ../ruby -ve 'puts Dir.glob("this\\ that")'
ruby 1.7.0 (2001-02-20) [i686-linux]
this that
pigeon% 



Guy Decoux