[Gllug] one-liner

[Dimitrios Siganos]

IMO, a one-liner is not a well defined concept, hence, you can't say 
that his solution is not a one liner unless you have provided a precise 
definition for what a one liner is. It fits in one line, hence, it looks 
like a one-liner to to me. If your colleague wanted a single command 
solution then he should have been more specific.

What's more interesting is that his solution won't work correctly for 
file-names which contain spaces.

Dimitris

On 31/10/11 16:57, tid wrote:
> A colleague asked my opinion as to whether I felt the following was a 
> correct answer to an test question:
>
>   Q: Please supply a one-line command to substitute all occurences of 
> 'fish' to 'chips' in all files ending in .html
>
>  -A: $ for i in *.html ; do sed -i -e 's/fish/chips/g' $i ; done
>
> I'm not sure about this : it's written on one line but it's not really 
> a one-liner or is it? The point of the test is
> measure the student's skill and they've shown that they understand 
> in-place editing so I'm inclined
> to give them the point. What do others think?
>
> Tid
>
>
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