Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >Ok, thanks for taking a look at it! (You didn't see anything >obvious that could be done simpler or more efficiently? I always >seem to do things the hard way :) Nothing obvious. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ==

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> Michael Merten wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... >> >are there any script guru's out there with the time and the >> >inclination

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-09 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:10:31PM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: > Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... > > are there any script guru's out there with the time and the > > inclination to take a look at it, and possibly gi

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-09 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 11:02:24AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... > are there any script guru's out there with the time and the > inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some > suggestions/comments/pointers on how to i

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Merten wrote: >Hi, > >I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... >are there any script guru's out there with the time and the >inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me some >suggestions/comments/pointers on how to improve it? I'm happy to lo

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-23 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > of course you're right that Bourne shell has been around for decades, i > guess i wasn't thinking about that one since i really don't know anyone > who uses that as their primary login shell. For quite some time, I used tcsh as login shell and Bourne for scripts... > perhaps it's becaus

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-19 Thread James Pollard
Quoting Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, > > i > > discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but > > why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language > > ov

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread Jameson Burt
> > call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i > discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but > why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language > over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any pla

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
James Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i | discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but | why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language | over perl? One wo

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread James Pollard
Quoting Jameson Burt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > > > good documentation to read?? > > > > > > Thx. > > > > > > Shao. > > > > > > > I would recommend O'R

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-18 Thread Dan Furtney
I stand corrected. Maybe that is why that program can never be found. ;^) -Original Message- From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian Date: Saturday, January 16, 1999 2:47 PM Subject: Re: shell scripts. >On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote: >

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-16 Thread Thomas Adams
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote: > scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered > because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl > instead. Good Luck Please don't confuse Pearl with perl. Pearl is a different - if a

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-16 Thread Jameson Burt
> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > > good documentation to read?? > > > > Thx. > > > > Shao. > > > > I would recommend O'Reilly "Learning the bash Shell". > (http://www.ora.com) and

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-15 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > good documentation to read?? > > Thx. > > Shao. > I would recommend O'Reilly "Learning the bash Shell". (http://www.ora.com) and "Beginning Linux Pr

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
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Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-15 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Hi, > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any > good documentation to read?? There is some online documentation, like manual pages, which cover, in a bit of detail, all the built-in functions of hte shell. I'm currently going through a book called Unix shell progr

Re: shell scripts.

1999-01-15 Thread Dan Furtney
-Original Message- From: Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 5:33 AM Subject: shell scripts. > Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any >good documentation to read?? I recently went to purchase the Orielly book "tcsh" for so

Re: Shell scripts (first line -- what is that called?)

1996-11-27 Thread Bruce Perens
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Johnie Ingram wrote: > This is the first 2.1 kernel I've tried, so I don't know if its a bug > or a feature. (Its startup messages mentioned being POSIX-certified, > mabye things like "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and "#!/usr/bin/make -f" are > unsupported now?) Nope. It's just a bug.