From: Park Heesob <phasis@...>
Date: 2005-02-11T23:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: A Ruby-relevant quote from Alan Kay

Hi,
> 
> For the Windows folk:
> 
> ruby -ropen-uri -e "puts open(
> 'http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/smalltalk.html').read.gsub(/Smalltalk/,
> 'Ruby')" > foo.html && start foo.html
> && ruby -e "sleep 3"
> && del foo.html
> 
> And all that needs to be one line.
> 
> Does anyone know if Windows has a line continuation thingy like *nix's
> backslash (\)?
> 
You can put a caret ^ character at the end of the line to continue it. 


However, be sure there are no space characters or any other whitespace 
following the ^ character. 
Try:

ruby -ropen-uri -e "url='http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/smalltalk.html'" ^
-e "puts open(url).read.gsub(/Smalltalk/,'Ruby')" > foo.html ^
&& start foo.html && ruby -e "sleep 3" && del foo.html

Regards,
Park Heesob