[Gllug] Bash scripting question

[ccooke]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:59:59PM +0200, Franz Timmer wrote:
> 
> it's very difficult to work with a bash-skript. It's better to use perl
> (or python). 
> 

That's a religious war, though. 

(My own view is: If you're gluing programs together and doing small bits
of data work, shell is a much more efficient language than any other; if
the program gets more than a thousand lines long, you'll probably want
to at the very least consider rewriting in perl)

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