From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T08:45:34+09:00
Subject: Re: One line handies

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Lyndon Samson wrote:
>
>> Ruby is such a sweet language that you can achieve alot with little code
>> 
>> I'd like to see what 'one-liners' others have come up with.
>> 
>> here's one I find usefull.
>> 
>> ruby -e 'puts ENV["path"].downcase.split(";").sort'
>> 
>> handy for windows but *nix ppl would probably use sed.
>
> Not necessarily, but we would use PATH and ":" :-)

cross platform sed-ness:

   harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e 'y ENV[% PATH ].downcase.split(%r [:;] )'
   ---
   - "."
   - "~/bin"
   - "~/shared/bin"
   - /home/ahoward/bin
   - /usr/local/sbin
   - /usr/sbin
   - /sbin
   - /data/bin
   - /usr/kerberos/bin
   - /usr/local/bin
   - /bin
   - /usr/bin
   - /usr/x11r6/bin
   - /dmsp/reference/bin
   - /usr/local/java/bin

;-)

btw - this is the first use i've ever found for using the %<space> trick...

-a
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