On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:27:05 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > Paul Jarc wrote: >> Linda Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> p="-e -p 60 -x" >>> --- >>> That's why I wanted the capture -- to pick out the 60 -- where 60 >>> represents a positive integer. The space between the -p and the >>> number is optional. >> >> It sounds like you're looking for getopt. > --- > I knew about getopt -- was just wanting a string-manipulation > mechanism to do it, but am maybe getting too used to string > manipulations in perl? Would still love to use perl's full RE's in bash > expressions, such is life... (am not sure I want it enough to try > implementing/merging them...:-)) Linda
If it's regex's you need, sed can do them nicely (without needing to leave the world of shell programming), and python has "perl compatible regex's" - but then python will often have a better way than regex's to do things. :)
