bash scripting

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"Emmanuel Roldan" wrote:
> I like this trick!  I'm still very much a beginner in scripting.  I've read 
> the O'Reilly Korn Shell book, the Kochan and Wood, and pored through Sed & 
> Awk.
> How does one find/learn these nice ways?  I'm sure the answer will be "over 
> time"....
> 
> Also, is it worth a SA's while to keep on in the KSH scripting, or just jump 
> straight to PERL?
> 

I am not all THAT fond of perl.  I speak purely from the support side of
the house though.  For each of my customers who write perl code, and leave
behind this legacy of scripts which depend on /usr/local/bin/perl being
version 4.x and now of course, said developer has moved onto other stuff...
it's just not a good use of my time to re-educate each new group of new
hires on good perl scripting practices, and help them debug their inherited
mess.

Thus, my rule of thumb is this ... "if you want perl on one of my supported
systems, you compile it, you install it in non-system directory, and
you support it".  It's no accident that Veritas does this for VCS...

This would usually not apply for shell scripts, and thus I say YES ...
Learning KSH and SH are still important skills to have.

Not having slept for 48 hours, I'm sure that I'll read this tomorrow and
wish I had just shut my yapper!


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