From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T01:41:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp challenge

On May 23, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Casimir Pohjanraito wrote:

> Whats the rubyest ruby program you can code for opening a directory of
> files and replacing a particular string in all files (if found) with
> another string?
>
> Lets suppose that all files in directory are text and the string to  
> search
> for is "target", and replace string is "practice".

 From inside the directory in question:

   $ ruby -pi -e 'gsub("target", "practice")' *

James Edward Gray II