[BNE-PM] you lot have all gone quiet again?

David Bussenschutt d.bussenschutt at mailbox.gu.edu.au
Tue Sep 17 02:25:30 CDT 2002


Is it just me... or have you lot out there on this list all gone quiet 
again.    We'll be having none of that!. 

Ok, here's my challenge to you all:   I want one-liners.    useful, 
useless, fun,necessary,unique,quirky, whatever I don't care.    Let's see 
what interesting one-liner perl programs you lot have come up with. 
Send-em to the list, and we'll all become a little wiser as a result.

here's one from one of my co-workers to get us started.... can you tell me 
exactly what it does?  (without running it)
perl -le 'for(1..100){print}' | column                       # ( the 
column command is probably a linux only command)

...and how is the above one different from something like this....? 
perl -le 'for(1..100){print}' | pr -7 -t -l20

David.
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