On 4 Nov, mlh wrote: > :-) > Well from the fire into the frying pan is still an > improvement.
<Luke ducks away from a language war> :-) > If there was a a2py I'd recommend that. I can't honestly see a reason to convert an awk script to another language, even ici. IMHO awk is a clean and elegant language, and the maintainability of the program would not increase by translating it! I think what we're really suffering from is the shell's quoting awkwardness. Maybe a better solution would be to put the awk script into a #!/bin/awk script file and install it somewhere for use. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
