From: luisbebop <luisbebop@...>
Date: 2008-10-26T00:08:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Join all text files in a folder, with a single line of Ruby code

'Case I'm learning Ruby , and I wanna see some snippets to make some
tasks in a single line of Ruby code.
Directly from prompt is not funny!


On Oct 25, 12:40 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 25.10.2008 13:56, Brian Candler wrote:
>
> > luisbebop wrote:
> >> I did a single line of code in Ruby, which joins all text files in a
> >> folder to a bigfile. I got some tests, and it's works!
> >> Does anyone knows a better way, or other 'Ruby Way' to do that ?
>
> >> File.open('bigfile','w') { |mergedFile| Dir.glob("*.txt").each { |
> >> file| File.readlines(file).each { |line| mergedFile << line } } }
>
> > system("cat *.txt >bigfile")
>
> Why not directly invoke "cat" from the shell prompt? :-)
>
> Kind regards
>
>         robert