one-liner

In one coverage, she did not answer questions but when I asked, she turned and looked at me and gave me a one-liner.

I know it's just a one liner comment across the internet, but it makes you sound really patronising.

The fact that Class: : DBI simplifies record operations to one-liners makes embedding Perl code in the database feasible and palatable.

"The name's Bond, James Bond" is not only the secret agent's calling card, but now Britain's most memorable movie one-liner of all time.

Editing files, for instance, can be a simple one-liner if you want to replace one word with another.

Instead of fixing indexpage. pl myself (a fine exercise, but one I had no time for at 2 AM), I used a one-liner.

The following is not a one-liner, but it's a pretty useful script that started as a one-liner.

This 3-line script is about as large as a one-liner could be before you have to rewrite it as a real script.

Story manga is known for its feature lengths and distinct story lines, as compared with the one-liner cartoons with gags and jokes.

For simplicity, we'll extract just the relevant coordinate and identifier portions with the one-liner shown below.

When used on e-mail messages or Usenet articles, the preceding one-liner strips out all headers.

" The one-liner, he says, was " invented, or at any rate brought to the forefront, by Benjamin Franklin.

She started her speech with a one-liner.

EG: That old one-liner could now become the motto of the world's nuclear industry.

Although it's simple, the disadvantage of this one-liner is that it creates a new file.

Single quotes are better, because then you can use double quotes inside the one-liner.

Thus, we come to our first one-liner, intended to add two columns in the text input to the script.

Consider the following one-liner to create a list of the top 50 e-mail senders in the emailHours file.

Consider the following one-liner to build Web-page thumbnails for each domain mentioned in the top10Links file.

It is interesting as an exercise, but in practice the one-liner would become 20-30 lines of unnecessary code.

You should understand what's needed from your one-liner, and do exactly that.

Markers, the third one-liner will print the lines inside all eight sets.

The third one-liner does not have that problem, because it will print all the lines between the START and END markers.

Take the output of find, a list of files, and pass it to the one-liner.

You should never run a one-liner outright; always print out what it will do before you actually run the command.

Finally, you can also write one liners from the command line, just like Perl or Ruby. That same example looks like this as a one liner

Printing the contents of %ENV with a one-liner

A problem with the first one-liner in Listing 3 is that it will go through the