# Re: Trying to get a value from cshell script inside ruby

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**Created:** [June 7, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-get-a-value-from-cshell-script-inside-ruby/139797 "2008-06-07T04:29:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-trying-to-get-a-value-from-cshell-script-inside-ruby/139797/1 "2008-06-07T04:29:38Z")

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You can use env to get the value of $STAT from ruby. Please forgive me  
if I miss some details here but…

Try this:

puts ENV[“STAT”]

That should print the value of the env variable named STAT. I am not  
sure how changes to the var by a script called by the ruby prog are  
reflected in the current env hash - check the docs there may be an  
env.reload method.  
Jamie McLaughlin  
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Subject: Trying to get a value from cshell script inside ruby

I am trying to run the c shell script inside ruby script.  
Looks something like this:

csh\_script = File.new(TemporaryFile.getFileName(“test\_csh”), w)  
csh\_script.puts(“#!/bin/csh/”)  
csh\_script.chmod(0555)  
csh\_script.puts(" ls -l | wc -l") #some command here  
csh\_script.puts(“$STAT = $?”)  
csh\_script.puts(“exit($STAT)”)  
csh\_script.close

#then call smth like this in order to execute the script

system(csh\_script.path)

What I am trying to get is the value of the $STAT to get passed in to  
the ruby script and assigned to some variable

## I would appreciate any help

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