From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T09:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: bash to ruby


On Oct 23, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Devi Web Development wrote:

> A while back I considered writing some of the unix commands (and
> perhaps basic shell scripting) in cross-platform ruby, but decided it
> wasn't especially useful. Are people interested in that? Would anyone
> be willing to help. I'm kind of busy right now, but if there's
> demand...
>
> The basic idea was:
>
> $ruby -- rubyunix.rb 'fmt story.unformatted.txt > story.txt'
>
> $ruby -- rubyunix.rb -f 'c:/path/to/unix/shell/script'

So rewrite basic commands in Ruby? Sounds good. i'm in :-D


~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.