Re^5: Using pipes to combine scripts

That is, IMO, a limitation of this site. The coding tip from esk555 is indeed not a "Cool Use For Perl", but OTOH there is no section here for mere "Practical Tips For Perl Programmers". So he had to put it here, by lack of a better place. (where else... Code Catacombs? Snippets?)

The real irony, to me, is that if he had posted the exact same node as a reply to a SoPW question "How can I combine scripts on the same command line?", it probably would have gotten a lot of upvotes. There regularly are nodes of this type, in Daily Best Nodes.

p.s. His tip is indeed worthwhile for Windows programmers, who aren't used to this kind of thing. The only tools that I know of on Windows that commonly used in this way, are ports of Unix utilities, such as UnxUtils.

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Re^6: Using pipes to combine scripts by blazar (Canon) on Nov 20, 2006 at 17:27 UTC
Good points! As far as the appropriateness of an answer in such terms in SoPW, that's because occasionally people would ask about how to "combine scripts" possibly thinking of something very Perl specific, wheareas shell interation would do. As a side note Windows does come with its own file/text utils, descendent from old DOS ones, and probably inspired by UNIX ones (although note that IANAOH - I am not an osen historian). Of course it's apparent that the former ones are much less powerful and less prone to be combined each other than the latter ones. Anyway you can get a full list of them by just typing `help` at the prompt. Indeed, I do have UnxUtils and stuff from similar projects intalled. Just to make my life easier, you know...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Using pipes to combine scripts by artist (Parson) on Nov 21, 2006 at 16:06 UTC
We actually have tips section, buried under tutorial section at here. They cannot be terms as 'practical' in the sense you defined though. --Artist	[reply] [d/l]