From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T08:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: One line handies

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> 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 [:;] )'

oops

   harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e 'y (ENV[% PATH ] || ENV[% path ]).downcase.split(%r [:;] )'


-a
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