From: x1 <caldridge@...>
Date: 2005-12-27T13:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

Ara, I always love your examples! :-)  Please keep contributing to the
community!!

BTW, I have the process management class working like a champ.. I'll
share the code with you later!



On 12/26/05, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Gary Watson wrote:
>
> > This is probably something everyone in here already knows about, but I
> > thought it was cool enough that I wanted to post about it.
> >
> > If you want to create a one liner to say search all the *.txt files
> > in and under the current directory for text matching "Hello", you can do
> > this
> >
> > find -name '*.txt' -exec ruby -ne 'print if /Hello/' '{}' ';'
> >
> > 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'`
>
>    ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| e =~ /a.rb/}  '
>
> -a
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