--0-1822010182-1252100720162 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Glenn, Do you know how to unsubscribe from these e-mails? Thanks, Steve --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Glenn Jackman <glennj / ncf.ca> wrote: From: Glenn Jackman <glennj / ncf.ca> Subject: Re: declare a shell alias in a ruby file To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 6:30 AM At 2009-09-04 04:32AM, "Jean-SñÃastien" wrote: >On 3 sep, 18:16, Brian Candler <b.cand... / pobox.com> wrote: > > The only way you can do this is from the original shell itself. Either > > type your alias command at the shell prompt, or put it in a file and do > > > > . myscript > > > > The dot (.) means "read this file and execute it as commands within this > > shell" > >". myscript" doesn't not work for me. It doesn't read my file as a >ruby one, althrough my file is starting by "#!/usr/bin/env ruby". Brian is saying that the ruby script writes shell commands to a file named "myscript" (instead of printing them to stdout).Then the shell will source that file (instead of 'eval'-ing its stdin). -- Glenn Jackman Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous --0-1822010182-1252100720162--