[Klug-general] Saturday 25th July 10am to 2pm

[james morris]

On 15/7/2009, "Peter Childs" <peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:

>A talk on Scripting Languages might be of intrest to quite a few, ie
>Perl, Python, Bash etc etc. and could go quite in depth..... while
>still keeping it beginner proof.
>
>I would quite like to hear a talk on RegExp, awk, egrep, cut, perl etc etc.
>
>But maybe a talk on the wonders of the shell might be a good place to
>start. This is one of the main good points of linux I mean you can't
>do things with the windows gui, that you can do with a shell script.
>We get to reliant on GUI and need to remember how to use the shell.
>
>Peter.

Yes that's a good idea. I quite enjoy a bit of bash scripting now and
again.
here's an artsy text-scrolling script i wrote earlier this year:

http://jwm-art.net/art/text/re_store_present5b

i've written a few regular expressions every once in a while but have to
research them again and again each time i need to use them, so i'd be
interested in that too.

james.