[ANN] - ptools 1.1.1

[Daniel Berger]

Hi all,

This is just a quick announcement to let y'all know that I've released =
ptools=20
1.1.1 today.

What is it?
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Power tools for the File class. Additional methods include which, =
whereis,=20
head, tail, middle, wc, null, nl_convert, touch and binary?.

What's new?
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This release adds the File.null and File.binary? methods. The former =
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the null device on your system The latter returns whether or not the =
file in=20
question is a binary file (using a simple best-guess algorithm).

Where is it?
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You can get it via gems, the RAA or RubyForge.

gem install ptools
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ptools/
http://rubyforge.org/projects/shards/

Enjoy!

- Dan

PS - I forgot to put the dependency in the gem, but Windows users will =
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win32-file-stat. If you're using the latest one-click installer, you've =

already got it.


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[Peña, Botp]

fr daniel:
# Power tools for the File class. Additional methods include=20
# which, whereis,=20
# head, tail, middle, wc, null, nl_convert, touch and binary?.

very cool and helpful. now win users aren't left so far behind..

maybe, i can create a more efficient grep -r now, one that does not =
include binary files. Will #binary? work on unix too?

thanks for ptools -botp

 

[Daniel Berger]

fr daniel:
# Power tools for the File class. Additional methods include
# which, whereis,
# head, tail, middle, wc, null, nl_convert, touch and binary?.

very cool and helpful. now win users aren't left so far behind..

maybe, i can create a more efficient grep -r now, one that does not include binary files. Will #binary? work on unix too?

thanks for ptools -botp

All of the ptools methods are cross-platform so yes, File.binary? will
work fine on Unix.

Glad you're enjoying it.

Regards,

Dan