Re: What one-liners do people actually use?

perl -le 'print `date`=~/Fri/ ? "woohoo" : "boohoo"'

:)

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shortest one liner by hakkr (Chaplain) on Dec 09, 2005 at 10:57 UTC
`perl -v` [download] Other than that the only one I use is search and replace. `perl -pi -e 's/somestring/otherstring/g' *.htm` [download] cut, grep, xargs and find ususally do instead	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: What one-liners do people actually use? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 10, 2005 at 21:51 UTC
Why not just use localtime? `perl -le'print localtime =~ /Fri/ ? "w" : "b", "oohoo"'` [download] Or: `perl -le'print 5 == (localtime)[6] ? "w" : "b", "oohoo"'` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]