SPUG:Best One-Liners and Scripts for UNIX

[Brian Hatch]

> Ouch! That's too complicated for my "Minimal Perl" tastes.

I just gave you my starting point - of course we can
play with things.

> How about the following as a one-liner to type directly to the shell,
> 	perl -wlna -e 'print "@F[3,1,2]"' file

I use perl one liners on the command line all the time.  But
when I use one too much, then I put it in a function so I don't
need to any more.  That's the whole point.

> unshift @F, "(No zeroth field! first is #1)";

Are you nuts?  That was the whole point of using perl!  Of course
the first field should be field #0.  Anything else is unperlish.

I also wanted the use of the '..' operator - you're not going
to take that away, are you?.

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