Editing Files in Place with Ruby
8:03 PM EDT Wednesday, October 3 2007
One thing that's interesting about Ruby is that you can blatantly see the influence of other languages such as Lisp, Smalltalk, Perl and Java in it. One thing I always used to use Perl for is a simple search and replace tool:
perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' *.txt
I recently discovered that there is a similar equivalent with Ruby:
ruby -pi -e "gsub(/foo/, 'bar')" *.txt
