From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T20:57:08+09:00
Subject: Re: anything disappearing from Ruby for 2.0?

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> wrote:
> 
> I find the ability to write one-liners _amazingly_ useful. Perhaps you 
> don't use shell/command-line interface much. But many, many Unix/Linux 
> users do most of their stuffs in shell daily. And using a combination of 
> Unix commands sometimes are just not powerful/easy/portable enough. I 
> use Perl & Ruby one-liners for all things, from renaming a bunch of 
> files according to some string/regex operation (e.g. changing all 
> ".tar.gz" to ".tgz"), manipulating file contents (e.g. neutralizing 
> "evil" HTML pages), downloading recursively but with some complex rules 
> that wget can't do, etc.

Sorry to harp on about this, but given the number of people chiming in
in support of one-liners, I really don't understand the general
indifference/antipathy to RCR #164. I know there are ways to hack it
using a wrapper around the ruby interpreter, but then, there are ways to
hack most things.

martin