Re: One liner brain curler (for me ;-)

[Jerry Rocteur]

On Sunday, Dec 15, 2002, at 13:00 Europe/Brussels, John W. Krahn wrote:

perl -e 'for (@ARGV) {rename $_,uc($_) unless -e "uc($_)"; } ' *
What is wrong with it ???

subs/functions don't interpolate in quoted strings.

perl -e'-e uc||rename($_,uc)for@ARGV' *

You're incredible John.. You must be Larry's brother ;-))

Thanks very much..

If anyone has one liners you think I could use, send them to me, I'm composing a list from the ones I've found, I've not tried them all yet but I'm working my way through them:

http://www.rocteur.cc/geeklog/public_html/ article.php?story=20020118223020446

TIA,

Jerry


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