[Gllug] Simple Bash Script

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Tue Jun 3 13:35:52 UTC 2008


David Damerell wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>   
>> There sheer length of this thread reminds me of why I never write shell 
>> scripts, "simple" or otherwise.
>>     
>
> Me neither - I learned Perl first.

I didn't quite learn perl first.  I was working in an environment with 
several different UNIXs, mostly different shells, different versions of 
shells and so on.  Writing one script that worked everywhere without 
fail was a pest, so I learned perl instead which was much more tolerant.

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