also sprach Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls@informaat.nl> [2003.02.01.1703 +0100]: > I am not sure why you have lost faith in shell scripting, besides the > language being horribly ugly, and useless for complicated development > (which it is not meant, nor designed for, so fair enough:)), but perl is > notoriously write only code as well. But the other thing is that if you > write a shell script for it, it will be very portable on unixy machines. Right. But I gave up on it when I fough 30 minutes this morning on reading in a file formatted like this: <user>\s+<filename> with a while loop: while read user filename; do echo "$user : $filename" done < thefile this is supposed to work, but for whetever reason, it didn't this morning, and would put everything into $user and leave $filename blank. of course I checked $IFS. of course i did everything to debug. i couldn't find the solution. so i gave up. > I have something similar that I whipped up, but in scheme, and in > about the same amount of time as this message took to write. Btw. > Perl doesn't take that long to learn, and if you want a fun language > to hack in python is a good choice. i've learnt perl. it's just been too long and it would take me ages to get back into it. i will, just not today. and python: i am not going to use a language where the indentation of a line is part of the syntax. i just won't. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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