Augment ruby $LOAD_PATH with ENV['PATH'] still fails to find backtick command

Question

I'm trying to run a program called pdfgrep from within a ruby script (Ruby 1.9.3), which is run from a Git Bash (MINGW32) shell on Windows 7. The call to pdfgrep is within backticks, I would like to get the result and clean it up using ruby methods.

After viewing this answer and this answer to a related SO question , I figured I should convert the ENV['PATH'] variable to unix paths from the Windows style paths that is the default in my shell.

(Line 3) So I have tested the contents of $LOAD_PATH with a simple puts , and that seems to be working.

script.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

ENV['PATH'].split('\\').join(File::SEPARATOR).split(';').inject($LOAD_PATH) {|lp,v| lp << v }

# The intention is to replace puts with a variable assignment
puts  `pdfgrep -i "(issued|Total)" *.pdf` 

The error I get when running this is:

./script.rb:6:in ``': No such file or directory - pdfgrep -i "(issued|Total)" *.pdf (Errno::ENOENT)

When I supply the full path - c:/Users/cjross/bin/pdfgrep -i [etc...] - there is no error message. It still doesn't output what I expect but it doesn't raise an error.

Basically I would love to be able to call any program in my shell's $PATH from ruby. Any advice would be appreciated.

EDIT Thank you @konsolebox for correcting my incorrect quoting. Still have the path issue unfortunately.

Answer 1

puts `pdfgrep -i '(issued|Total)' "*.pdf"` 

我认为应该像

puts `pdfgrep -i "(issued|Total)" *.pdf`