From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-28T02:38:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a neat trick for doing recursive one-liners

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> 
>>>>    ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| e =~ /a.rb/}  '
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That doesn't seem to do anything . .
>> 
>> then you probably don't have any files named 'a.rb' under the current
>> directory - i seem to have several hundred ;-)
>
> Or abrb, or acrb, or airbag, or....  :-)

indeed.  or diectories.  that's the nice thing about using select:

   ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| test ?f, e and e =~ /^a\.rb$/}  '

-a
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