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Command line tricks: Scripting Languages

February 14, 2008 4:24pm | 3 Comments | bash, cli, code, geek, php, programming and ruby

To search your php.ini file quickly and easily with the option to use regular expressions, I tend to drop back to the cli. The reason for this is I can easily parse the output of phpinfo() with grep, and can do various things with the output, could even pass it to a script if I really wanted to.

Here is the line I use to search phpinfo()

echo "<?php phpinfo() ?>" | php | grep -i $search_string

It passes the string through the php interpreter and then searches through it with grep....

Why do I love Ruby?

January 30, 2008 2:15pm | 17 Comments | geek, mother, php, programming, ruby and tech

So mother (who can't program) just posed me the question

Why is Ruby your favourite programming language?

Me being a show off jumped straight into TextMate and banged out some code in real time to show her. First up, a quick little one-liner of Ruby code to output a String:...