Creating a file and saving in public directory

With Ruby V1.87p72 on MacOS X 10.5

662 > cat junk/newbe cat: junk/newbe: No such file or directory

663 > irb irb(main):001:0> Dir.mkdir("junk") => 0 irb(main):002:0> Dir.chdir("junk") => 0 irb(main):003:0> f = File.new("newbe", "w+") => #<File:newbe> irb(main):004:0> f.write("hello world\n") => 12 irb(main):005:0> f.close => nil irb(main):006:0> quit

664 > cat junk/newbe hello world

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