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On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:00 AM Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl> wrote: > "-0777" flag is the usual way to read the whole file at once (instead of > line by line) in one-liners. > > I feel this isn't ideal. "-0" is a bad flag. It's overly general, users > rarely need $/ to be set to anything other than undef or "\n". Also, the > input record separator has to be specified as an octal number, which is > weird. The fact that the numbers above 0o377 are special-cased to mean > "undef" makes it even more confusing. > > Slurping is an extremely common operation and it deserves its own > one-letter flag. I propse "-g" (mnemonics: gobble, grab, gulp). I wish > it could be "-s", but sadly it's already taken :( > I think this is an excellent idea. This sort of processing using Perl oneliners is extremely common and spread across the internet, and the '-0777' flag is a constant source of confusion. Ideally perl would have support for long options so we didn't have to take up the dwindling one-letter options, but in the meantime, they are not in high demand so IMO it's fine to use one for this. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next