justin randell wrote: > > In fact, aliases are for people used > > to the csh way of doing things .. I'd *never* use them > > never used csh before - i'm just a programmer masquerading (badly) as > a sysadmin...
If thats the case you'd probably be better off using Python or Perl. As a programming language, shell has some major weirdnesses. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Who would have believed that reading and writing would pay off?" -- Homer Simpson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
