On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 01:05 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Shell scripts are like a convenient glue or maybe like a handy power > tool (think cordless screwdriver). There's some initial learning I see shell scripts come with a lot of software, and linux distributions, but it seems that when someone writes their -own- script/tool, they do it in Perl (at least I do). For instance, Perl's regexes are a lot easier and more precise (to me) than the bash's globbing system. Well, I guess that's not fair, I just know a little bit more Perl than I do bash. But what I'm wondering is if there really are a lot of Unix systems out there that don't come with Perl, to the extent that a script accompanying an application should be written in bash or csh over Perl. (Not counting the super-specialized systems like handhelds which might not have Perl for space reasons.) > * Like for example, the people I know who know that they want to make > a textual replacement in, oh, a thousand files -- they either write > a custom C program to do this, or else they make the changes > *by hand*. Duh... I cannot find it for the life of me, but somewhere in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives (that damnable WebObject interface is terrible and doesn't return the matches) is a quotation by Douglas Adams. He describes the joys of spending fifteen minutes writing a script that he could have done by hand in five minutes. Come on, we've all done it. Admit it... Erik ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
