[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:00:45PM -0500, ?Q? wrote: > > > The script is at <http://remarqs.net/misc/mids2urls.sh.txt>. Feel > > free to reply to me off-list (or just to flame me) if you think > > this kind of non-Gentoo-specific stuff has no place here. > > I took a quick look and about the only advice I'd give is ... use > perl! or python or ruby, or whatever language rocks your boat. > > I learned perl because a small project I did involved text processing > and it got uglier and uglier the more I tried to trick awk, sed, grep, > sort, and all the usual suspects into doing the job. I finally > decided to learn perl and did that and got the job done in half the > time I had spent trying the usual suspects. Since then, I have gone > straight to perl for any script which has to do anything as fancy as > get options or parse text.
I'm ok with grep and sed s, but not much more. I guess I'll (try to) learn perl if I have any serious text processing to do. But for now, I'm going to be stubborn and stick with bash. > Bash makes scripting more powerful than the old bourne shell, but it > doesn't make it any easier. > > I know it's not the advice you wanted :-) Heh, I can't always get what I want .... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
