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From: Janis on 23 Feb 2010 03:32 On 22 Feb., 22:45, Andreas Marschke <xxtj...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Whereever you build pipelines of: cut, head, tail, sed, grep, tr, etc. > > etc. use (e.g.) awk(1) instead; and "avaiable on every possible machine"; > > it's standard on Unix and available even for WinDOS if you like. Another > > option, if you're not repelled by it's syntax, is perl (it's non-standard > > on Unixes, but generally available as well). > > > Janis > > TBH I havent taken the time yet to have a look into awk. But I try to learn > perl besides my current work on c++ applications. As opposed to perl, you can learn awk in just 1-2 days. > > So well yes I will have a look and see what I can do with your tool of > choice. Thanks! The point is that awk covers all the commands I listed (and more) in a consistent simple way, using a (C oriented) syntax which seems already well-known to you. WRT "*your* tool of choice", don't get the wrong impression; I appreciate the whole Unix tool chest. But not every sort of tool-usage makes sense. Janis
From: Janis on 23 Feb 2010 03:42 On 22 Feb., 22:42, Andreas Marschke <xxtj...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Janis Papanagnou wrote: > > Andreas Marschke wrote: > >>> I suppose the truly good hacker uses a parser to minimize both typing > >>> and error likeliness, but that's just my opinion. > > >> What do you mean by "parser" ? > > > A tool aware of the specific syntax of the data. > > > Janis > > I was more interested in you naming an actual tool not the general > description of a parser. Maybe. But upthread you didn't ask for that. You asked: > >> What do you mean by "parser" ? Janis
From: Sven Mascheck on 25 Feb 2010 18:47
Andreas Marschke wrote: > I was just wondering wether somebody wants to share his/her best shell > script snippets here on the list. Im interested in everything that can do > something nifty to a system or a website. Pick your favourite shell wether > its bash,sh,dash,ksh,csh,fish or whatever just have fun hacking and share > your jewels! Especially when counting Janis' point about complex scripts, then the most unquestionable examples per se are - whichshell from Brian Hiles/Heiner Steven and http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/688aec975609b9e1 - which_interpreter by Stephane Chazelas http://stchaz.free.fr/which_interpreter |