From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T04:39:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp challenge

On 5/23/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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
>

And we have a winner!  James you never cease to amaze me.  I just
learned three new things.

TwP