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Re: [tlug] For the sake of discussion, Arcane commands?



A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:05:33PM +0900, Chris Mague wrote:
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>>Of course all of this can be done in Perl as well :)
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> The tool of the Devil.
> My attempt at adding heat to the discussion.;)

Then allow me to retort! For reusable scripts, I favour perl, as it can be more flexible that shell scripts. For one time, throwaway commands (of course, I can c-r to pull them out of my bash history), I am more likely to use sed, awk, and so on.

-Josh


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