Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: "L. Dubb" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:09:58 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Timothy Bates wrote:
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If you write Jons again, I predict 10,000 downloads in the first week.
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... top of the list being
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Tanaka, RegEx and Akua.
RegEx was originally my attempt to cope on a Mac without 'grep' or
'sed'. So it would be slightly ironic to convert them for use on a
system which already has those commands.
Not that I'm suggesting anyone learn sed -- Perl or Python would make
much more sense. (grep is worth a look, though.) In general, you can
run RegEx' regular expressions in Perl or Python without modification,
though you'll have to be careful with escape characters.
But the main limitation for me is that I don't have an OS X Mac -- That
makes coding and testing pretty difficult.
9:) Lindsey Dubb email@hidden