I guess it depends if you like to start working with narrowly focused
tools to start with and then move up, or do you want to start with a
really big tool? The comment about making your command line use more
efficient is a good one. While they are interesting, I've never seen
anyone use Perl one liners to do work. I've seen lots of one liners
that are shell based.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On 17 Oct 2002, Ryland Bingham wrote:
> Perl comes installed on all modern Unixes. It's pretty dang portable.
>
> I'm not a fanatic, but why is it easier to learn the basics like
> REGEXP's with sed than perl? I'm of the opinion that you'll get farther
> faster, if you start with the basics in perl and move forward in
> complexity as you need. And perl is pretty beginner friendly.
>
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 15:44, Jim Wildman wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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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