Hello, On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 08:34:50AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009 20:31:46 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > mmv? > > > > I'd rather agree with antrik here, because stuffing all these > > operations in a single command seems a little bit useless, IMHO. > > That's something where I also agree, though. > > The scripts I mean are these small utilities which can do what I need - and > exactly that.
Personally, I think that such scripts are a very good thing -- one example I can immediately remember is the well-known word combination ``backup script'': often doing backup by hand is too tedious and time-consuming to leave this unautomated. > > > Note: Until today I haggled with sed instead, because I didn't think this > > > would be that easy with python... > > > > Hm, this may be case-specific :-) For me the sed command is much > > easier :-) > > I think it might be "Python feels like home for me"-specific ;) Ah :-) > Also when I use sed I often end up with > "command unterminated" -> damn, I forgot to escape something :( > > Might be related to having many spaces and non-letter characters in > filenames, since the OS and tools damn well should not restrict how > I name my files :) That's also related to the MAX_PATH issue :-) (I used to put spaces in filenames once, but then dropped that practice, using dashes instead of spaces :-) ) > > I do agree with you :-) > > > > Actually, I believe antrik referred to professional programmers, too. > > But I may be wrong, of course. > > Then I hope he doesn't talk about the Eclipse users - who make up a > not neglectable share of coders today (it's too far from my shell > for my taste... I decided to mostly use Emacs, and though Eclipse > looks nicer, I only really miss easy refactoring - which I'm sure > emacs can do, too, I just don't yet know how). > > I assume he talks about efficient UNIX programmers. I guess we should wait for antrik to decide who he referred to :-) Regards, scolobb