From: Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@...>
Date: 2004-10-06T08:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby to replace sed command (was Re: http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/GettingStartedWithRails)

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 07:12:30 +0900, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@NASA.Gov> wrote:

> The following is cleaner but does not follow the sed command's behavior
> and is still too Perlish for my tastes:
> 
>   ruby -pi -e '$_.sub!(/local\//,"") if $_=~/^#!/' public/dispatch.{rb,cgi,fcgi}
> 
> Anyone?

How about:

ruby -pi -e '~/^#!/&&$_[/local\//]=""' files

andrew