On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:35:04 -0400, grauzone <n...@example.net> wrote:
But shell scripting in itself is so powerful for this kind of stuff.
I've written lots of little scripts to do fantastic things that on
Windows would be so painful (without cygwin of course). Like renaming
all files of a certain type to something else, or copying select files
to another directory.
Now wouldn't that be much more powerful to use an actual programming
language for this, instead of bash? I claim with something like python,
bash doesn't really have any right to exist anymore.
I can log into ANY Linux, Solaris, BSD, OSX, etc system and have a
reasonable /bin/sh that allows at least bourne shell functionality. The
same can't be said for almost any other scripting language you can throw
at me.
Of course, aside from that, I hate python syntax... And can python be
used as a user shell?
How would you do the same thing in python? Would it be any clearer or
shorter? Probably not.
I'm sure some would argue that there is no point for python if you can run
perl...
-Steve
