Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:47:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to Untar Group of Files? Message-ID: <20011207164717.GB1960@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <002f01c17f1a$92afda40$0c01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112071152180.11244-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <002f01c17f1a$92afda40$0c01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>
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> Thank you for the additional perspective. I have just enough experience > with the OS (about 10 months) to understand the power but not enough to > know how to use it properly. In the past, I would just do them one at a > time until I was done but now I'm forcing myself to learn how to do it > right. And because I'm learning, I appreciate seeing the different ways > available to do things. > This is because Unix system programs are written to be tools, and tools that work well in combination with other tools. There isn't always a one "proper" way of doing things, it often depends on the context and on what tools you know about. Indeed that is one of the problems, there are so many tools that it is hard to know about the existance of all of them ! You can be pretty certain however that just about anything you want to do has been done by many people before - so you will often get many replies with different solutions. You will also one day get replies from the dreaded (joke) perl brigade. Perl breaks the Unix axiom "a tool should do just one thing, and do it well". Perl does just about everything, and does it pretty well. Unfortunately it is a morass, a syntactic and semantic quagmire. But it runs on almost anything, has a fanatical following, and the money you would need to buy all the books on it is enough to buy a small house. If you want someone to do your shopping for you, perl probably has a module for it. Anyway, it awaits you.. :) No flames please, perl is inflammable. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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