SV: [Fun With Perl] Everything should be kept as simple as possible...

[patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se]

> On Thu, 18 Jun 1999, Steve Willer wrote:
> 
	>What is wrong with this?
	>
	>  cat names.txt|sed 's/||/, /g'|sort +0 +1

	Well, the one thing that immediatly strikes me is that cat is
totally unneccessary. An ordinary redirection would look much nicer;

	sed 's/||/, /g' <names.txt |sort +0 +1

	> If you really, really wanted to use perl for this, you could do:
	>
	> #!/usr/bin/perl
	> open(IN, "names.txt") or die "Ack";
	> print sort <IN>;

	Or, ofcourse;

	perl -e "print sort <>" <names.txt



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