From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 14:13:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A5D16A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:13:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.mts.net (smtp2.mts.net [205.200.16.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AD843D45 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gval@mts.net) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (wnpgmb01dc6-40-11.dynamic.mts.net [142.161.40.11])i11MCYY9002323; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 16:12:35 -0600 (CST) From: greg To: Daniela In-Reply-To: <200402011952.42130.dgw@liwest.at> References: <200402010138.44102.dgw@liwest.at> <200402011533.58877.dgw@liwest.at> <20040201101027.2b90499d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <200402011952.42130.dgw@liwest.at> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1075673546.15771.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:12:27 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Chris Pressey cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: sed problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:13:37 -0000 On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:52, Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 01 February 2004 18:10, Chris Pressey wrote: [... snip ...] > > > > Or you could avoid sh variables and do whatever processing you have to > > do entirely in awk (or perl.) > > I really like csh programming. Everyone says that csh is crap for scripting, > but it isn't. I think Perl is harder than csh. > But let's not start another holy war. I think shell scripting is great to. But what makes it so powerful is the ability to use tools and executables from your path. That would include tools like awk, sed, grep and perl. -- greg