Re: [tlug] Re: [BOOKMARK] Bourne shell scripting tutorial

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 12/07/07, Nguyen Vu Hung <vu-hung@example.com> wrote:

> The power of Bourne shell and other shell scripting languages roots
> to other command line tools like grep, sed, awk ...

Yes. That is, in a word, The Unix Way, or the Tao of Unix Programming,
if you will (and ESR will, believe you me!). ;)

> What they can do is quite limited.

I guess you and I disagree on the definition of "limited". :)

> I know some Java gurus convert shell scripts to Java
> using known classes. They key is regular expression.

Sure, but why would you do that? The JVM is even slower than the shell! ;)

/me ducks and covers

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Cheers,
Josh