RE: dumn unix script question

2001-06-11 Thread Henry Poras
Jared, Thanks for the summary. Any comments on where Tcl fits in to the mix? Henry -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 5:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Let me start off by saying that I like Java. I took a class in it from Sun, and Java is easy. Learning

Re: dumn unix script question

2001-06-11 Thread Jared Still
On Monday 11 June 2001 10:21, Henry Poras wrote: Jared, Thanks for the summary. Any comments on where Tcl fits in to the mix? I've not used TCL, so I can't really say too much about it. It is generally considered simpler than Perl, and likewise less robust. TK is another matter. If you

RE: dumn unix script question

2001-06-09 Thread Mark Leith
Thanks Jared! Off to find my first Perl Book :) I've seen on the list the things you do with perl scripts, and have to say I'm always impressed.. Mark -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:11 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Let me start off by saying that I like

RE: dumn unix script question

2001-06-08 Thread Mark Leith
A quick question - I have VERY limited scripting experience - for arguments sake, lets say - none:) Now, looking at the code below, and having started with java a short time ago to implement certain functions in to our web page, I have to say that they look similar in style.. Is the case? Could

Re: dumn unix script question

2001-06-08 Thread Jared Still
Let me start off by saying that I like Java. I took a class in it from Sun, and Java is easy. Learning the libs is hard but the language is easy. I'm going to say something now that may sound counter intuitive: Learn Perl first. The reason it may seem counter intuitive is that Perl is hard

Re: dumn unix script question

2001-06-08 Thread Diana_Duncan
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dumn unix script question

2001-06-07 Thread Janet Linsy
Hi all, This must be a really dumn question. :- I have a script which doesn't work well, since it doesn't recognize a subroutine. I compared my code with other codes that work fine with sub function, and didn't see any difference. (at least look the same style to me.) So I wrote a really

Thanks, works! -- Re: dumn unix script question

2001-06-07 Thread Janet Linsy
Thank you Michael and Balaji. It works! I'm still in vb mind. vb is what I was doing. shell script is a mistery to me. --- Janet Linsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This must be a really dumn question. :- I have a script which doesn't work well, since it doesn't recognize a

Re: dumn unix script question

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Well, you've got the right idea, just in the wrong order. The korn shell does not compile the whole script and then execute as say Perl does. It executes it a line at a time. So rearrange your script like so: == #!/bin/ksh function quick_test { echo