Tim Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> This means shell programmers have to learn other technologies to
> get any real work done, and for UNIX/Linux folks, the best choices
> are Perl, Awk, and then grep/sed/sort/find/tr/col/dd/m4, etc.
Someone had mentioned that there is no CPAN for the shell. Well....
perhaps the collection of standard commands plus any other local
programs could be viewed as the "modules" for shell expansion. I know
that they're not collected, nor comprehensive, but it certainly is a
rich set of pieces that can be knitted together with a shell script.
--
Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
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