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From: Janis Papanagnou on 3 Mar 2010 21:54
mop2 wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:46:56 -0300, Janis Papanagnou
> <janis_papanagnou(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mop2 wrote:
>>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:17:18 -0300, LC's No-Spam Newsreading account
>>> <nospam(a)mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote:
>>>> Hmmm ... telnet is scriptable at the price of using expect (which I
>>>> had to use only twice in my life, one being the other swith
>>>> case). In
>>>> the case of the new switches I can't find the relevant info in the
>>>> telnet interface. Also the script is last resort, I am phasing out
>>>> the scripts for interactive use (I'd probably keep them for
>>>> crontabs) in favour of java, and prefer to do HMTL parsing in java
>>>>
>>> You can try html with shell:
>>
>> ITYM "bash shell".
>>
>>> x=0;while read -d\>;do printf "<$x>${REPLY%<*}";x=$[x+1];done
>>> [...]
>
>
> Why?
> Well, about the syntax, possibly, [...]

Exactly. You've used bash specific syntax unnecessarily, while $(( )) is
standard and widely available with POSIX shells.

Janis
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