Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 18 iul 20, 09:59:46, davidson wrote: >>=20 >> But first of all, I should reiterate that I lack expertise. >>=20 >> I lack expertise. >>=20 >> Second, I have no useful knowledge about real programming languages >> (such as perl) to declare. > > Same disclaimers apply to me. >=20 >> But as a peer, albeit a thick one who is not a perl-knowing brain >> wizard, this is my experience: > > In my experience you will encounter sed (more often than awk) in shell=20 > scripts, either because some things are difficult or even impossible to=20 > do in pure shell script, or just because the author didn't know any=20 > better. > > Learning perl could be useful if you *also* need a real programing=20 > language in which case you might as well consider python (should be=20 > easier to learn). > > Kind regards, > Andrei
except if you look at python3 pattern matching stuff and throw up in disgust. i saw something recently that might make me revisit the topic in python, but until that actually gets implemented i will not be talking much about python and pattern matching. i do use sed and awk and other unix standard tools. perl has not been needed for anything i've done but if someone makes a useful tool and it is done in perl i won't complain as long as it works and does what the man page says it should do. songbird
