Re: Shell scripts and perl

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I prefer shell scripts to Perl for tasks that:

Are small and simple.
Are unlikely to fail. (I find pipeline error handling difficult: grep '\.pl$' foo | sort | uniq | xargs find. Now exactly where is the error? )
I find hard write in Perl (e.g. find /usr/ -maxdepth 2).

Otherwise I find myself writing Perl.

--
Andreas

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Re^2: Shell scripts and perl by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 10, 2007 at 14:20 UTC
(Drifting slightly offtopic, but . . . :) Are unlikely to fail. (I find pipeline error handling difficult: grep '\.pl$' foo \| sort \| uniq \| xargs find. Now exactly where is the error? ) zsh provides a `pipestatus` variable which is an array of the exit statusen from each component of the last pipeline. Granted that doesn't solve problems where one part of the pipe is generating bad data, but it does let you handle a few more kinds of problems. Update: Oop, quite right. Recent bash have stolen :) this zsh functionality (along with programmable completions and other Z goodies :).	[reply]
Re^3: Shell scripts and perl by tcf03 (Deacon) on Sep 10, 2007 at 14:23 UTC
bash provides this as well. Ted -- "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." --Ralph Waldo Emerson	[reply] [d/l]

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