One-liner Program
A one-liner is textual input to the command-line of an operating system shell that performs some function in just one line of input.
The one liner can be
- An expression written in the language of the shell.
- The invocation of an interpreter together with program source for the interpreter to run.
- The invocation of a compiler together with source to compile and instructions for executing the compiled program.
Certain dynamic scripting languages such as AWK, sed, and Perl have traditionally been adept at expressing one-liners. Specialist shell interpreters such as these Unix shells or the Windows PowerShell, allow for the construction of powerful one-liners.
The use of the phrase one-liner has been widened to also include program-source for any language that does something useful in one line.
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