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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:38:08+00:00

I have a ruby one-liner ruby1.9 -ine ‘#some statement’ src/** . I assumed, like

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I have a ruby one-liner ruby1.9 -ine '#some statement' src/**. I assumed, like perl does, ruby skips the directories ( well that’s how I remember it ). But I get this error e:1:in 'gets': Is a directory. Besides giving it a list of files, is there a quick way of getting round this?

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    If you want only files recursively, then find(1) will be your best bet :

    find ./src -type f | ruby1.9 -ne '#some statement'
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