Re: What one-liners do people actually use?

Here is one i used today:

perl -le'for (<*.mas>) {$o=$_;s/mas$/html/; rename $o,$_ }'
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I needed to change some .mas extensions to .html extensions.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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Re: What one-liners do people actually use? by b10m (Vicar) on Dec 08, 2005 at 19:34 UTC
You could have just used BASH for this trivial task ;) `for F in *.mas; do mv $F ${F/.mas/.html}; done` Update: stupid typo fixed... Thanks jeffa -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What one-liners do people actually use? by jeffa (Bishop) on Dec 08, 2005 at 19:40 UTC
HERETIC!!! >:( Just kidding! ;) I actually did pull off a BASH for loop: for i in `ls *.mas`; do tidy -asxhtml -clean -i -wrap 200 $i > $i.new; + done [download] And then a Perl one-liner to strip off the .new ... and then i realized that tidy as a -m option to modify the file in place! UPDATE: Why Tanktalus? Because you weren't here at the time to show me a better way. :P Thanks for the tips, guys. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: What one-liners do people actually use? by Tanktalus (Canon) on Dec 08, 2005 at 19:44 UTC
Um ... why "ls .mas" in backticks when you can eliminate the subprocess using just ".mas"? ;-) Also, your renaming ... that's what /usr/bin/rename is for: "rename .mas .html *.mas" ;-)	[reply]
Re^2: What one-liners do people actually use? by Gilimanjaro (Hermit) on Dec 09, 2005 at 09:35 UTC
Or `rename mas html *.mas`...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What one-liners do people actually use? by b10m (Vicar) on Dec 09, 2005 at 11:37 UTC
Correct, like Tanktalus also suggested (half a day before you ;-) The "problem" with that is that you might run into problems if you have a lot of files. At least with running a Linux kernel(not sure with other OSes), you'll run into the 'Argument list too long' error (or you may have tweaked your `MAX_ARG_PAGES` kernel setting). -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply]
Re^2: What one-liners do people actually use? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 08, 2005 at 20:32 UTC
You didn't need Perl for that: `for %q in (*.mas) do ren %q %~nq.html` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: What one-liners do people actually use? by Kanji (Parson) on Dec 08, 2005 at 20:37 UTC
`ren .mas .html` --k.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: What one-liners do people actually use? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 08, 2005 at 20:38 UTC
duh! silly me! I've been doing `for %q in (TESTA.*) do copy %q TESTB%~xq` [download] a lot lately, so I wasn't thinking straight.	[reply] [d/l]


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