Hi --

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Gary Watson wrote:
>
>> This is probably something everyone in here already knows about, but I
>> thought it was cool enough that I wanted to post about it.
>> 
>> If you want to create a one liner to say search all the *.txt files
>> in and under the current directory for text matching "Hello", you can do
>> this
>> 
>> find -name '*.txt' -exec ruby -ne 'print if /Hello/' '{}' ';'
>> 
>> I know you can do this in pure ruby in like 3 lines if you use the Find
>> module, but I really wanted to do it with a one liner.  Earlier I tried
>> something like this
>> 
>> ruby -ne 'print if /Hello/' `find -name '*.txt'`
>
>  ruby -e'  puts Dir["**/**"].select{|e| e =~ /a.rb/}  '

We've strayed a little from the original thing, but along those lines
you could also do:

  ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/**"].grep(/a\.rb/)'

(just guessing about the \. part :-)

or maybe even:

   ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/*a.rb*/"]


David

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