From: Torli Birnbauer <aipir@...>
Date: 2009-03-11T03:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting the contents of a file to a variable?

Jeff Schwab wrote:
> This is one of those rare moments where RTFM really does apply.

Yet another defender of obfuscation and deception with fabricated 
gibberish, only to glorify some minuscule know-how with RTFM phrase.

The code Robert wrote is Unix shell code and has nothing to do with Ruby 
discussion here. Besides, it should be mentioned that it is shell and on 
top of that if written properly for a discussion like this should look 
like the following:

 $ cat >|x <<EOF
 > 123
 > EOF
 cat x
 $ 123

and not like

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 17:45:12 tmp$ cat >| x <<EOF
> > 123
> > 456
> > EOF
> 17:45:23 tmp$ cat x
> 123
> 456
> 17:45:25 tmp$ allruby -e 'p File.read("x"), File.readlines("x")'
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
> "123\n456\n"
> ["123\n", "456\n"]
> ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-cygwin]
> "123\n456\n"
> ["123\n", "456\n"]
> 17:45:55 tmp$

The intention of the above clearly is to show a sarcastic opinion of a 
frustrated mouse pusher, who has to bury his point in garbage to confuse 
the audience. I asked him to explain what he wrote and the answer to the 
above gibberish is very simple:

Unix shell
----------
 $ cat >|x <<EOF
 > 123
 > EOF
 cat x
 $ 123
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