From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T07:26:05+09:00
Subject: Re: script with -e command line option???


On Jan 26, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Suresh Unadrad wrote:

> $ ruby -n -e "print" if test.txt
> -e:1: No such file or directory - if (Errno::ENOENT)
>
> so it seems clear that ruby isn't getting the entire -e argument,
> probably due to intereference by BASH.  anyone know how to fix this?
>
> --su

Well, the first thing to try is changing the kind of quotes.

$ ruby -n -e 'print if /wombat/' test.txt

If that doesn't work, I'd start to suspect that you have "ruby"  
defined as an alias or something to make the args be evaluated twice.

-Rob

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