On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:16 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: > >> Recently I gotta play around with text files too much, hopefully that will > >> make me to start reading some shell scripting soon! > > > > If you're a biophysicist who expects to make much use of computers, I'd > > concentrate on learning Perl or Python rather than [bash] shell. IMHO, > > you'll find them more useful when you interact with other tools or do > > more complicated tasks and either can do much the same as bash.
Often overlooked is Tcl (www.tcl.tk), which does excellent text processing. It properly supports regular expressions as well. And unicode text. Linux comes with it. ActiveState make packages for many platforms that makes installation a breeze. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
