Windows, run shell script from Ruby?

Question

Say you have a bash script test.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo 'Hello World!'

In linux if you wanted to run this in Ruby you would just do

irb(main):001:0> `./test.sh`

In Windows you just get an error

Errno::ENOEXEC: Exec format error - ./test.sh
        from (irb):2:in ``'
        from (irb):2
        from c:/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

Commands work fine

irb(main):004:0> `grep`
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try `grep --help' for more information.

ruakh · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-05 01:47:25Z

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If you have Bash installed, try:

irb(main):001:0> `bash ./test.sh`

answered Mar 5, 2012 at 1:47

ruakh

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