From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-10-27T03:48:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Join all text files in a folder, with a single line of Ruby code

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:08:48 +0900,
> Joel VanderWerf wrote in [ruby-talk:318574]:
>>> ruby -e"puts ARGF.to_a" *.txt >merged
>> Cheating a bit:
>>
>> ARGV.replace Dir['*']; print ARGF.read
>>
>> Not recommended, though, since it reads all the data into memory and 
>> steps on ARGV.
> 
> ruby -pe 'BEGIN{ARGV.replace Dir["*"]}'
> 

Very nice! But if you are going that far, why not go all the way:

ruby -pe'1' *

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