From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-12-27T13:21:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

Hi,

At Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:57:53 +0900,
Gary Watson wrote in [ruby-talk:172611]:
> I know you can do this in pure ruby in like 3 lines if you use the Find
> module, but I really wanted to do it with a one liner.  Earlier I tried
> something like this
> 
> ruby -ne 'print if /Hello/' `find -name '*.txt'`
> 
> unfortunately that version would fail if there were any spaces in the
> filenames.

ruby -ne 'BEGIN{ARGV.replace(Dir[ARGV.join("\0")])}; print if /Hello/' '**/*.txt'

-- 
Nobu Nakada