From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-12-17T15:26:09+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby way of dumping file

From: Joshua Ball [mailto:chezball@gmail.com] 
# Can someone give me a cleaner, more rubyesque (even correct) 
# way of printing out the first 20 bytes of a file? My solution
# doesn't feel right.
# 
# open(ARGV[0], 'rb') { |f| ...


try,

  IO.read ARGV[0], 20