On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > defaults". For example, using Perl5 syntax, here's what I mean:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[snip]
> > perl -e 'unlink <*.txt> :v'
>
> Well it's certainly not going to be that, since the <glob> operator is
> going far, far away.
Well, that's reasonable after all...
> At first I thought it would be a good idea to just make it a perl
> command-line argument:
>
> perl -ve 'unlink glob "*.txt"'
>
> Since it would seem that one-liners would be their primary use. But now
Well, for one thing -v will already be taken for something else anyway.
OTOH I think that even in one-liners there would be cases in which one may
want to turn on verbosity selectively for certain functions and not for
others.
> I think about the many times I've written in longer scripts:
>
> print "Moving $old to $new\n";
> rename $old => $new or die "Move failed: $!\n";
> # ...
>
> And indeed I would love to have written:
>
> rename $old => $new :verbose;
>
> Instead.
Hehe, you got the point!!
Michele
--
> ....tranquilli,scherzavo :-)))
E perche? Accoppiata a una fusoliera in piombo, che se sbatte si ammacca
ma non si rompe, mi pare una buona idea...
- Salvatore Ciambra su it.hobby.modellismo, thread "Re: Ala in ghisa"
