From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T04:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: piping into ruby at command line

On 2002.07.23, David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote:
> 
> OK, after some mystification, I figured out what's happening.
> 
> The shell is interpolating its own $_ -- which is nothing.
> 
> So what you're really getting is just "print" and "puts".
> 
> print uses $_ (the Ruby one) by default.  puts doesn't.
> 
> Try putting the inline script in single quotes instead of double, or
> escape the $ with a \ .

Right.  I figured that out right after I wrote the email as
I was smoking my cigarette before my 2:00 PM meeting.  I would
have replied to my own email if I weren't sitting in the
meeting ...

I normally always use single quotes when typing code -- this time
I used double quotes because I was cutting and pasting what the
OP wrote.

Defeated by my own laziness ... ouch.

-- Dossy

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