From: luisbebop <luisbebop@...>
Date: 2008-10-27T10:55:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Join all text files in a folder, with a single line of Ruby code

> ruby -pe'1' *

Can you explain ? Sorry, but I didn't understand.

Thanks :)

On Oct 26, 4:48 pm, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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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