Re: [OT] My life after AS: shell commands, perl?
Re: [OT] My life after AS: shell commands, perl?
- Subject: Re: [OT] My life after AS: shell commands, perl?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:13:49 -0700
At 12:55 +0100 12/2/05, Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose wrote:
I was told that for my needs perl is the way to go. If so, are there
good resources for learning perl (I suppose so) especially when
working on os x?
You have been told correctly.
Larry Wall is a good writer. The old "Learning Perl" and
"Programming Perl", at least ed 3, are the bibles that I keep going
back to. Both are from O'Reilly.
Perl can call AppleScript via the osascript tool when you really need
to talk to a Next-Step style application. It can easily use other
unix tools with the ` backtick) escape method. As for awk and sed
you'll probably never go there.
Think also about using a BBEdit worksheet from which you can issue
commands by ENTERing a selection. It's almost as good as the old MPW
shell and much more Mac-like than emacs. It also allows immediate
access to AppleScript tools via osascript and the editor itself is
scriptable and recordable via AppleEvents.
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