ruby1.9.3.1 -F -l -anpe -i -0
Interpreted object-oriented scripting language
-F pattern     Specifies input field separator ($;).
-l             (The lowercase letter “ell”.)  Enables automatic line-ending processing, which means to
               firstly set $\ to the value of $/, and secondly chops every line read using chop!.
-a             Turns on auto-split mode when used with -n or -p.  In auto-split mode, Ruby executes
                     $F = $_.split
               at beginning of each loop.
-n             Causes Ruby to assume the following loop around your script, which makes it iterate over
               file name arguments somewhat like sed -n or awk.

                     while gets
                       ...
                     end
-p             Acts mostly same as -n switch, but print the value of variable $_ at the each end of the
               loop.  For example:

                     % echo matz | ruby -p -e '$_.tr! "a-z", "A-Z"'
                     MATZ
-e command     Specifies script from command-line while telling Ruby not to search the rest of the
               arguments for a script file name.
-i extension   Specifies in-place-edit mode.  The extension, if specified, is added to old file name to
               make a backup copy.  For example:

                     % echo matz > /tmp/junk
                     % cat /tmp/junk
                     matz
                     % ruby -p -i.bak -e '$_.upcase!' /tmp/junk
                     % cat /tmp/junk
                     MATZ
                     % cat /tmp/junk.bak
                     matz
-0[octal]      (The digit “zero”.)  Specifies the input record separator ($/) as an octal number. If no
               digit is given, the null character is taken as the separator.  Other switches may follow the
               digits.  -00 turns Ruby into paragraph mode.  -0777 makes Ruby read whole file at once as a
               single string since there is no legal character with that value.
source manpages: ruby1.9.3