On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:35 +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote: > that is a point which surprise me : i understand the dash for a posix > and lightweight attitude but why use bash as "modern shell" ? why not > perl or zsh (which are both more powerfull) ?
bash is actually pretty good if you know how to use it (and most of the
ksh93 comliant functions) - the problem is that most programmers don't.
The ${} constructs add a lot of power and allow the programmer to be
less reliant on external tools.
> in zsh, for example, pipes are not required anymore for the
> mysqld_get_param function :
Your example is little different to a good ksh/bash implementation
(though pipes aren't a bad thing so shouldn't necessarily be shyed away
from).
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