Which sort of defeats the portability issue...
Refusing to use anything other than /bin/sh and your basic Unix 'common
denominator tools' is a great way to force yourself to learn all kinds
of applications.
comm, cut, sort, awk, sed, ls, the testing flags within the shell, find,
Granted, Perl in particular was written to do a 'better' job than
these tools. But for a learning experience, nothing beats the basics.
And once you have the basics down cold, adding something like Perl, or
Python really makes a difference.
Kind of like really good mathmaticians have the addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division down cold before trying Calculus, etc.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> Unless you are bound by distribution constraints, I strongly recommend
> Python (Perl is supposed to be almost as good) rather than shell
> scripting. For power, portability, extensability, etc. these scripting
> languages have great advantages over shell interpreters. The one
> drawback is that you must have the Python or Perl interpreter in-place
> for this to work.
>
> --ronan
>
>
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