On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:36:25PM +0800, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote: > I suggest that people learning Unix systems who have reached the point of > learning 'awk', study Perl and its one-liners instead. If your Unix vendor > doesn't have perl installed, well, shame on them ;) The BSD's have Perl, > and I'm sure Solaris does, too. What are you using?
It's the real reason why Larry Wall invented Perl in the first place; to replace the mishmash of tools that were used for Unix shell programming in the past. Sometimes Unix's philosophy of combining simple tools to produce complicated results can be taken too far, and shell programming in the past was like that. Perl was initially invented to balance this out. As for Solaris, I believe Sun includes a binary on their install CD for v8, but it's not a required install as Solaris doesn't depend on it as deeply as Linux does. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
