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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:28:55PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> The difference between bash and perl? |
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> Perl was inspired by a linguist, who at least puts his foot down at |
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> the truly crazy suggestions. Bash has no such thing. |
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Perl is a bloated mediocre operating system, complete with repo (CPAN). |
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But it lacks a lightweight extraction/reporting language. BTW, the most |
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powerful little-known gem in bash is that you can open filehandles to do |
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sequential reads and writes, just like in BASIC. For examples, see... |
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http://blogmag.net/blog/read/48/File_descriptors_in_shell |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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