From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T06:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: script with -e command line option???

Suresh Unadrad schrieb:
> If I type in the following example from "Programming Ruby", I get an
> error:
> 
> $ ruby -n -e "print if /wombat/" *.txt
> -e:1: No such file or directory - if (Errno::ENOENT)
> 
> This is from a BASH command line on a linux system with ruby 1.8.4

My answer is from Windows 2000, Ruby 1.8.5, but the reason may be, that there is 
no file in your directory which mathes "*.txt"

 >>>>> Example from Windows Console >>>>>

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\wolfgang\Desktop>type otto.txt
Hello, world!

I'm here to wombat all thinks,
whatever wombat means...
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\wolfgang\Desktop>ruby -n -e "print if /wombat/" *.txt
I'm here to wombat all thinks,
whatever wombat means...

 >>>>> EoE >>>>>

Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner