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John Summerfield wrote:
> Patrick Spinler wrote:
>>
>
> I would think Perl (which I can program, in a bumbling fashion) and
> Python (with which I'm less familiar) better suited than bash. Both can
> have more flexible means of handling variables, and both are easily
> extended, where the need exists, with libraries written in C or C++.
>

Entirely true - the point wasn't to do anything with best methods, it
was merely a proof of concept.

One of the comparisons I often hear between CMS pipelines and unix style
pipes is that unix style pipes lack the ability to have stages that read
and write multiple streams.  Essentially I just wanted to see if, if
fact, unix style pipes, or more broadly bash shell scripts, even *could*
do the multi-io stream business.

I think I've shown that bash scripts have that capability.

Whether its reasonable is, of course, another debate, especially in
light of the existence of much more mature and well understood unix
native tools like perl.

- -- Pat

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