Moving files

Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Mon Jan 6 12:11:47 EST 2003


Bob Bell wrote:

> 
>     One nit: the $_ in the anonymous block passed to map does not come
> from grep.  Rather, it is a reference to each item (in turn) in the
> provided list (here, @f).
> 

Upon re-reading my explanation, I came to the same conclusion -- I was 
thinking that the script worked the way that I would have written it, 
rather than how it was written! ;)  On some level it is still true, 
though, since the data in @f comes from the grep call.

>     [ FWIW, I'm surprised Paul bothered to use @f, instead of just
> applying map to the results of grep directly ] 

Guess we're on the same page.

>     Also: rather than "substitute all whitespace in that item for an
> underscore", it is more accurate to say "substitute each occurance of
> a sequence of whitespace characters in that item with a underscore",
> though I believe that's what you meant.

A more precise way of saying it.



Erik




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