Marcin Kulisz wrote: > Jan Svitok wrote: > >> #!/usr/bin/ruby -w >> >> usr = ARGV[0] > ... >> puts appends \n, if you don't like it, use print > > thx a lot, I was very close to it but had probles with grep, first I > tired to do it with command "system" but it doesn't working then change > my mind & tired with method ".grep" & it doesn't work too but your > solution is easy & lovely > again thx for help Just for future reference (and I found this out the hard way by having it not working on me either) the system("insert_your_shell_command_here") method will return a boolean if your shell can execute the command (1 or 0, true or false). You can use the grep command, but as you saw in the solution, you use backticks ` ` to have system commands in your ruby script. Best regards, Eckie -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.