SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX

[Jim Flanagan]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, SPUG-list-owner wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 01:38:10PM -0700, Cantrall, Christopher wrote:
> > 
> > It's the sort of thing I love about perl: solve a quick problem in a
> > readable, maintable way. And I don't need to add the she-bang line
> > manually.
> 
> But dude, you're writing much more code than is necessary!
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl -wp
> BEGIN { print "#!/usr/bin/perl -wp\nuse strict;\n\n"; }
> s/^\s*\d{3}:\s//;
> # print;  # courtesy of -p option

  I'm pretty sure Christopher mentioned something about "readable, 
  maintainable."

  :^)

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