On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:28:55PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > The difference between bash and perl? > > Perl was inspired by a linguist, who at least puts his foot down at > the truly crazy suggestions. Bash has no such thing.
Perl is a bloated mediocre operating system, complete with repo (CPAN). But it lacks a lightweight extraction/reporting language. BTW, the most powerful little-known gem in bash is that you can open filehandles to do sequential reads and writes, just like in BASIC. For examples, see... http://blogmag.net/blog/read/48/File_descriptors_in_shell -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
