On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 01:44 22 Mar 2002, Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > I gues sed is the tool for this right? > | > Yes. Ignore the "perl is my only hammer" types. > | Ignore the "I don't know how to use perl properly" types :o)
I really did mean the smiley. I do succumb to the "perl is my hammer and everything looks like a nail" quite regularly. I like the ability to do almost anything with it ... it's seductive. > I use a LOT of perl. But for simple tasks it is still overkill and cumbersome. Yes, but carpenters rarely carry toffee hammers :o) I'm not sure about the "cumbersome" part; it was designed for systems administration and I think it does that job well. However, I had never really given consideration to the "hard link" problem. We'll skip the argument about whether one should really be doing inplace edits on them :o) > Sure, but many jobs, like the source mail item's job, require NONE of that. > Many many jobs! OK, conceded. I'm not going to stop using perl, but I will watch out for hard links now (it's not usually a problem, but I really hadn't ever discovered that; if I'd thought about it, I probably would have assumed it did the right thing, so thanks for the heads-up). Anyway, time for this thread to die, I think ;o) _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
